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Tornado Watch 39
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 9, 2022, 1:21 AM CST for 13 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2022, 1:21 AM CST (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2022, 8:54 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 23 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 1:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 3:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 33 min |
| Mar 9, 4:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 4:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 58 min |
| Mar 9, 4:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 5:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 8:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 35 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted.
869 WWUS20 KWNS 090718 SEL9 SPC WW 090718 ALZ000-FLZ000-CWZ000-091400- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Tornado Watch Number 39 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 125 AM CST Wed Mar 9 2022 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Tornado Watch for portions of Southern Alabama Western Panhandle of Florida Coastal Waters * Effective this Wednesday morning from 125 AM until 800 AM CST. * Primary threats include... A couple tornadoes possible Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms will spread across the watch area through the early morning hours along and south of a front. A few more supercells are possible, with a tornado and damaging-wind threat. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 45 statute miles north and south of a line from 60 miles west of Pensacola FL to 55 miles east northeast of Crestview FL. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. && AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector 25025. ...Edwards
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:50 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Pike | 92 min |
| Mar 9, 5:18 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry | 7 hr |
| Mar 9, 7:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison and 2 more | 118 min |
| Mar 9, 9:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Gilchrist and 9 more | 90 min |
| Mar 9, 5:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Lake, Levy and 8 more | 117 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.