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Tornado Watch 52
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 18, 2022, 10:53 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama; 9 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2022, 10:53 AM CDT (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 11:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 88 min |
| Mar 18, 12:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry, Houston | 5 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Henry, Houston | 62 min |
| Mar 18, 12:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 5 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 97 min |
| Mar 18, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 17 min |
| Mar 18, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Lee and 5 more | 67 min |
| Mar 18, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 18, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 69 min |
| Mar 18, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 59 min |
| Mar 18, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 87 min |
| Mar 18, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more | 89 min |
| Mar 18, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Liberty, Washington | 3 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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, 7:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 2 more | 8 hr |
| 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, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon and 3 more | 88 min |
| Mar 18, 1:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Berrien, Brooks, Clinch, Colquitt, Cook and 6 more | 3 hr |
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.