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Tornado Watch 574
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 29, 2022, 5:07 PM CST for 5 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 29, 2022, 5:07 PM CST (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2022, 10:54 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Marion County, MS, Perry County, MS, Smith County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion | 53 min |
| Nov 29, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 34 min |
| Nov 29, 6:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 62 min |
| Nov 29, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Nov 29, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 31 min |
| Nov 29, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 36 min |
| Nov 29, 9:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith | 64 min |
| Nov 29, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith | 45 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
- Mesoscale Discussion 1980 Severe potential...watch possible
- Mesoscale Discussion 1983 Severe potential...watch possible
- Mesoscale Discussion 1984 Tornado watch 572
- Mesoscale Discussion 1986 Tornado watch 573...574...575
- Mesoscale Discussion 1987 Tornado watch 574...575
- Mesoscale Discussion 1988 Severe potential...tornado watch likely
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 10:56 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison | 2 hr |
| Nov 29, 1:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 113 min |
| Nov 29, 3:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hale and 9 more | 115 min |
| Nov 29, 4:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 29, 4:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 90 min |
| Nov 29, 11:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Copiah and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 29, 12:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 29, 2:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Holmes and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 29, 5:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 28 more | 93 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.