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Tornado Watch 65
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2022, 10:45 PM CDT for 35 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2022, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas 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, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 19 min |
| Mar 22, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 28 min |
| Mar 23, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Mar 23, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 2:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 12 min |
| Mar 23, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 97 min |
| Mar 23, 4:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 56 min |
| Mar 23, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 49 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 571 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Clay and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 94 min |
| Mar 23, 4:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Geneva, Henry, Houston | 88 min |
| Mar 23, 12:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Duval, Nassau | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Duval, Nassau | 55 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.