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Tornado Watch 589

December 14, 202220 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 14, 2022, 5:57 PM CST for 20 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2022, 5:57 PM CST (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Dec 15, 2022, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 55 kt

All 35 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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: 80%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
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: 50%

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
Dec 14, 5:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	46 min
Dec 14, 6:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	25 min
Dec 14, 6:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty	39 min
Dec 14, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	40 min
Dec 14, 6:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	38 min
Dec 14, 7:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	26 min
Dec 14, 7:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	23 min
Dec 14, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington	62 min
Dec 14, 7:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	37 min
Dec 14, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	40 min
Dec 14, 8:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	29 min
Dec 14, 8:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Wakulla	39 min
Dec 14, 8:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	31 min
Dec 14, 9:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes	26 min
Dec 14, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	30 min
Dec 14, 9:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	10 min
Dec 14, 9:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	15 min
Dec 14, 9:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	64 min
Dec 14, 11:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	95 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 4:52 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	83 min
Dec 14, 5:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	7 hr
Dec 14, 11:37 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	113 min
Dec 14, 12:22 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 7 more	10 hr
Dec 14, 1:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	85 min
Dec 14, 2:53 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Washington	97 min
Dec 14, 5:01 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Monroe and 3 more	89 min
Dec 14, 5:04 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Covington	56 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.