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Tornado Watch 51
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 18, 2022, 7:33 AM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2022, 7:33 AM CDT (12:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:33 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 8:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 40 min |
| Mar 18, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 10:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 44 min |
| Mar 18, 10:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Mar 18, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 10:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 26 min |
| Mar 18, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 16 min |
| Mar 18, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Mar 18, 12:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 8 min |
| Mar 18, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 30 min |
| Mar 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 23 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 8 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 87 min |
| Mar 18, 7:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more | 89 min |
| Mar 18, 9:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 86 min |
| Mar 18, 10:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon and 3 more | 88 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.