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Tornado Watch 84
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2022, 11:26 PM CDT for 18 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Florida; 28 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2022, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2022, 5:42 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 58 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Grady County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Polk County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 89 min |
| Mar 31, 2:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 83 min |
| Mar 31, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Houston | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 2:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 76 min |
| Mar 31, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington | 96 min |
| Mar 31, 4:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 4:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Washington | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 4:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 4:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty | 83 min |
| Mar 31, 5:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 61 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 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 30, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 94 min |
| Mar 30, 8:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 8:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Dallas, Perry | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Washington | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 9:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chilton, Shelby | 85 min |
| Mar 30, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Covington, Escambia, Geneva | 114 min |
| Mar 31, 1:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Lee and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston, Russell | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Pasco, Putnam and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch and 23 more | 92 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.