Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 302
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2023, 5:52 AM CDT for 14 counties in Alabama; 7 counties in Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2023, 5:52 AM CDT (10:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 21 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 12:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 1:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 2:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Monroe | 3 hr |
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 83 min |
| Jun 14, 9:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 113 min |
| Jun 15, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dallas and 6 more | 115 min |
| Jun 15, 3:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 83 min |
| Jun 15, 6:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Sumter | 119 min |
| Jun 15, 8:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dale, Henry, Houston | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 9:03 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 6 more | 83 min |
| Jun 15, 1:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 115 min |
| Jun 14, 10:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Citrus, Dixie, Flagler, Gilchrist, Lake and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Nassau | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more | 87 min |
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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.