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Tornado Watch 62
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2022, 12:42 PM CDT for 18 counties in Alabama; 14 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 32 counties
Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Winston County, AL, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 22, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe, Pontotoc, Yalobusha | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 23 min |
| Mar 22, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 81 min |
| Mar 22, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 17 min |
| Mar 22, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 35 min |
| Mar 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 60 min |
| Mar 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 38 min |
| Mar 22, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 15 min |
| Mar 22, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 51 min |
| Mar 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 22 min |
| Mar 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 41 min |
| Mar 22, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 31 min |
| Mar 22, 6:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 2 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 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 22, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 95 min |
| Mar 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Sumter, Washington | 87 min |
| Mar 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Cullman, Greene, Hale and 8 more | 93 min |
| Mar 22, 9:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 20 more | 116 min |
| Mar 22, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 10 more | 115 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.