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Tornado Watch 85

March 26, 202325 counties in Alabama; 33 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 26, 2023, 6:34 AM CDT for 25 counties in Alabama; 33 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 2023, 6:34 AM CDT (11:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 58 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
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: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 6:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Washington	53 min
Mar 26, 6:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock	34 min
Mar 26, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Upson	30 min
Mar 26, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	48 min
Mar 26, 6:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes	49 min
Mar 26, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	23 min
Mar 26, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	48 min
Mar 26, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington	45 min
Mar 26, 7:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Upson	8 hr
Mar 26, 8:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Putnam	6 hr
Mar 26, 8:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Troup	4 hr
Mar 26, 9:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam, Warren	6 hr
Mar 26, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	48 min
Mar 26, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	18 min
Mar 26, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	27 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 592 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 10:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Chambers, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Elmore and 7 more	3 hr
Mar 26, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 17 more	7 hr
Mar 26, 1:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Sumter, Washington	2 hr
Mar 26, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox	5 hr
Mar 26, 4:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa and 13 more	119 min
Mar 26, 6:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa and 13 more	56 min
Mar 26, 9:29 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Choctaw, Dallas, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes and 5 more	91 min
Mar 26, 11:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 16 more	2 hr
Mar 26, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 23 more	6 hr
Mar 26, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 17 more	113 min
Mar 26, 5:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 21 more	94 min
Mar 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 33 more	7 hr
Mar 26, 6:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more	119 min
Mar 26, 1:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Fayette and 27 more	89 min
Mar 26, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford and 24 more	6 hr
Mar 26, 5:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 14 more	116 min
Mar 26, 5:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Clarke and 32 more	6 hr
Mar 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 55 more	88 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.