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Tornado Watch 291

June 14, 202338 counties in Alabama

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 14, 2023, 10:09 AM CDT for 38 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2023, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2023, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 38 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:08 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: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	50 min
Jun 14, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	34 min
Jun 14, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	38 min
Jun 14, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	30 min
Jun 14, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall, Morgan	25 min
Jun 14, 11:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	46 min
Jun 14, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	66 min
Jun 14, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	20 min
Jun 14, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	41 min
Jun 14, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	51 min
Jun 14, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	14 min
Jun 14, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	34 min
Jun 14, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	57 min
Jun 14, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	Cullman	39 min
Jun 14, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Greene, Pickens, Sumter	70 min
Jun 14, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	33 min
Jun 14, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	47 min
Jun 14, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	48 min
Jun 14, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Greene, Hale	67 min
Jun 14, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	36 min
Jun 14, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	34 min
Jun 14, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	22 min
Jun 14, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Cleburne, Randolph	62 min
Jun 14, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas, Perry	67 min
Jun 14, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery	82 min
Jun 14, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Russell	27 min
Jun 14, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BMX	Dallas, Perry	47 min
Jun 14, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	73 min
Jun 14, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes	43 min
Jun 14, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Russell	53 min
Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	35 min
Jun 14, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Hale	47 min
Jun 14, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Montgomery	42 min
Jun 14, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter	52 min
Jun 14, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	48 min
Jun 14, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Barbour	74 min
Jun 14, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BMX	Bullock, Pike	36 min
Jun 14, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BMX	Greene, Sumter	31 min
Jun 14, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Dallas, Marengo, Perry	42 min
Jun 14, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Barbour, Pike	51 min
Jun 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	42 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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa and 12 more	113 min
Jun 14, 5:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mobile, Washington	85 min
Jun 14, 9:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Chambers and 27 more	2 hr
Jun 14, 10:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	2 hr
Jun 14, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 26 more	86 min
Jun 14, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Elmore, Greene and 8 more	85 min
Jun 14, 3:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 3 more	67 min
Jun 14, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 21 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Dale, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon and 1 more	62 min
Jun 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	5 hr
Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Escambia, Washington	2 hr

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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.