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Tornado Watch 29
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 24, 2023, 9:32 PM CST for 8 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 13 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2023, 9:32 PM CST (03:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2023, 5:35 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 24 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion | 41 min |
| Jan 24, 10:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 50 min |
| Jan 25, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 39 min |
| Jan 25, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 37 min |
| Jan 25, 12:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 min |
| Jan 25, 12:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Jan 25, 1:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 17 min |
| Jan 25, 1:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 41 min |
| Jan 25, 1:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 20 min |
| Jan 25, 1:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jan 25, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 16 min |
| Jan 25, 2:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 19 min |
| Jan 25, 2:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 23 min |
| Jan 25, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 46 min |
| Jan 25, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 31 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 805 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1093 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 8:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 87 min |
| Jan 25, 3:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Geneva, Houston | 8 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 113 min |
| Jan 25, 6:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Franklin, Gulf | 89 min |
| Jan 25, 9:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 84 min |
| Jan 24, 6:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Avoyelles, Iberia, Iberville, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany | 93 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.