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Tornado Watch 95
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2022, 6:51 AM CDT for 33 counties in Alabama; 8 counties in Florida; 7 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2022, 6:51 AM CDT (11:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 3:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 48 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:51 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 8:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 8:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 8:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Apr 5, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 9:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 9:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 19 min |
| Apr 5, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 9:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Washington | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 9:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 9:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 10:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Lowndes, Montgomery | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery, Pike | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 10:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 10:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 11:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Tallapoosa | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 1 more | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Pike and 1 more | 84 min |
| Apr 5, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 19 min |
| Apr 5, 11:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Montgomery, Pike | 20 min |
| Apr 5, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 12:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Apr 5, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 41 min |
| Apr 5, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 1:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 89 min |
| Apr 5, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 18 min |
| Apr 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jackson | 62 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 6:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 17 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 10:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 12:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 3 more | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 1:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Geneva | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 10:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon and 2 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 3:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion, Nassau and 3 more | 113 min |
| Apr 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Nassau and 1 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:18 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pearl River | 60 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.