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Tornado Watch 683
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 25, 2019, 9:49 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama; 13 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2019, 9:49 AM CDT (14:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Clarke County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Oct 25, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 46 min |
| Oct 25, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 37 min |
| Oct 25, 1:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 27 min |
| Oct 25, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 44 min |
| Oct 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 45 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 376 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 114 min |
| Oct 25, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 57 min |
| Oct 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 91 min |
| Oct 25, 6:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Plaquemines | 55 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.