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Tornado Watch 14
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 9, 2022, 10:42 AM CST for 25 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2022, 10:42 AM CST (16:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2022, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Marion County, MS, Newton County, MS, Perry County, MS, Smith County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 11:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton | 57 min |
| Jan 9, 11:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 41 min |
| Jan 9, 11:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 56 min |
| Jan 9, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 63 min |
| Jan 9, 12:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 22 min |
| Jan 9, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 46 min |
| Jan 9, 12:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 54 min |
| Jan 9, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 14 min |
| Jan 9, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 46 min |
| Jan 9, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 23 min |
| Jan 9, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 48 min |
| Jan 9, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 29 min |
| Jan 9, 2:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| Jan 9, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 46 min |
| Jan 9, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 14 min |
| Jan 9, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 41 min |
| Jan 9, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 48 min |
| Jan 9, 3:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 35 min |
| Jan 9, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 36 min |
| Jan 9, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 25 min |
| Jan 9, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 4:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 11 min |
| Jan 9, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 14 min |
| Jan 9, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 43 min |
| Jan 9, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 49 min |
| Jan 9, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 27 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 452 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 1:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 4:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 9:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 11:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton, Smith | 118 min |
| Jan 9, 12:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Franklin, Pike, Wilkinson | 2 hr |
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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.