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Tornado Watch 559
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 29, 2022, 3:45 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 29, 2022, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 20%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| Oct 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Oct 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 20 min |
| Oct 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Oct 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 10 min |
| Oct 29, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 56 min |
| Oct 29, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 39 min |
| Oct 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Oct 29, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 51 min |
| Oct 29, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Oct 29, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 53 min |
| Oct 29, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 47 min |
| Oct 29, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Oct 29, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 92 min |
| Oct 29, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 97 min |
| Oct 29, 12:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 7 more | 64 min |
| Oct 29, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin and 18 more | 9 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.