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Tornado Watch 18
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 3, 2022, 11:40 AM CST for 40 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2022, 11:40 AM CST (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2022, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 57 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Clarke County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 12:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 44 min |
| Feb 3, 12:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 118 min |
| Feb 3, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 45 min |
| Feb 3, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 39 min |
| Feb 3, 1:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Perry | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 1:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 40 min |
| Feb 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 55 min |
| Feb 3, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Feb 3, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Tuscaloosa | 59 min |
| Feb 3, 2:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 52 min |
| Feb 3, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 46 min |
| Feb 3, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 48 min |
| Feb 3, 2:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 3, 3:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 12 min |
| Feb 3, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 43 min |
| Feb 3, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 62 min |
| Feb 3, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 28 min |
| Feb 3, 3:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 54 min |
| Feb 3, 4:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 23 min |
| Feb 3, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 46 min |
| Feb 3, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Feb 3, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore | 35 min |
| Feb 3, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 42 min |
| Feb 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 59 min |
| Feb 3, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 21 min |
| Feb 3, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 21 min |
| Feb 3, 5:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 36 min |
| Feb 3, 5:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 6 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Randolph, Russell | 83 min |
| Feb 3, 6:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 6 hr |
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 9:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 3, 1:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 19 more | 83 min |
| Feb 3, 3:50 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Clarke and 16 more | 85 min |
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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.