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Tornado Watch 26
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 22, 2022, 5:16 PM CST for 18 counties in Alabama; 33 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2022, 5:16 PM CST (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2022, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 51 counties
Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Attala County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 5 min |
| Feb 22, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 33 min |
| Feb 22, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 13 min |
| Feb 22, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 8:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 31 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 487 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale | 117 min |
| Feb 22, 3:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale and 3 more | 90 min |
| Feb 22, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dickson, Dyer, Fayette and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson and 11 more | 89 min |
| Feb 22, 7:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 24 more | 90 min |
| Feb 22, 9:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson, Jackson, Macon and 9 more | 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.