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Tornado Watch 95

April 5, 202233 counties in Alabama; 8 counties in Florida; 7 counties in Mississippi

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBButler, Crenshaw44 min
Apr 5, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore, Montgomery, Tallapoosa40 min
Apr 5, 7:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes, Montgomery39 min
Apr 5, 7:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike27 min
Apr 5, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Washington46 min
Apr 5, 8:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw, Washington49 min
Apr 5, 8:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke, Wilcox48 min
Apr 5, 8:33 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke42 min
Apr 5, 8:34 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBClarke, Wilcox41 min
Apr 5, 8:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox50 min
Apr 5, 8:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox47 min
Apr 5, 9:08 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMOBClarke, Wilcox33 min
Apr 5, 9:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBWilcox19 min
Apr 5, 9:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBButler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox64 min
Apr 5, 9:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBWashington5 hr
Apr 5, 9:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington43 min
Apr 5, 9:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBBaldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington52 min
Apr 5, 9:57 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox31 min
Apr 5, 10:08 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBButler, Crenshaw37 min
Apr 5, 10:10 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock, Lowndes, Montgomery50 min
Apr 5, 10:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox52 min
Apr 5, 10:25 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBButler, Crenshaw39 min
Apr 5, 10:50 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery, Pike40 min
Apr 5, 10:54 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXElmore28 min
Apr 5, 10:56 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBMXElmore27 min
Apr 5, 11:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatMOBButler, Crenshaw42 min
Apr 5, 11:12 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBMXLee, Tallapoosa28 min
Apr 5, 11:13 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBMXBullock, Montgomery47 min
Apr 5, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 1 more45 min
Apr 5, 11:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour, Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Pike and 1 more84 min
Apr 5, 11:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee50 min
Apr 5, 11:26 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBMXLee, Macon19 min
Apr 5, 11:37 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock, Montgomery, Pike20 min
Apr 5, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw30 min
Apr 5, 11:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia49 min
Apr 5, 12:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile2 hr
Apr 5, 12:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee, Dale, Henry59 min
Apr 5, 12:37 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour23 min
Apr 5, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington34 min
Apr 5, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGeneva53 min
Apr 5, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa26 min
Apr 5, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee, Dale, Henry, Houston61 min
Apr 5, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTAEHolmes, Walton, Washington57 min
Apr 5, 1:19 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEDale, Henry41 min
Apr 5, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa39 min
Apr 5, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGeneva, Houston44 min
Apr 5, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa89 min
Apr 5, 1:37 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEHolmes, Walton23 min
Apr 5, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEHouston18 min
Apr 5, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington60 min
Apr 5, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHouston53 min
Apr 5, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden, Jackson62 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2022-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2022-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 6:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 9 more3 hr
Apr 5, 8:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 17 more90 min
Apr 5, 10:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more90 min
Apr 5, 12:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 3 more83 min
Apr 5, 1:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeneva55 min
Apr 5, 10:15 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGadsden2 hr
Apr 5, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 7 more4 hr
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon and 2 more90 min
Apr 5, 3:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion, Nassau and 3 more113 min
Apr 5, 5:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Nassau and 1 more90 min
Apr 5, 1:47 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 27 more2 hr
Apr 5, 3:18 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 44 more8 hr
Apr 5, 10:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPearl River60 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.