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Tornado Watch 82
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2022, 6:39 PM CDT for 12 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 9 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2022, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 24 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 70%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 90%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River, Pike, Walthall | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 11 min |
| Mar 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 22 min |
| Mar 30, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 15 min |
| Mar 30, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 22 min |
| Mar 30, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Washington and 1 more | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Escambia, Monroe and 1 more | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 12:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 51 min |
| Mar 31, 12:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| Mar 31, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 47 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Cullman and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lamar, Pickens | 91 min |
| Mar 30, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more | 86 min |
| Mar 30, 4:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 18 more | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll and 10 more | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, West Carroll | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orleans, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany | 119 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.