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Tornado Watch 89

March 26, 202339 counties in Alabama

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 26, 2023, 5:49 PM CDT for 39 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 2023, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 2023, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 39 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery 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, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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
70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
50%
Ten or more severe wind reports
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMOBClarke50 min
Mar 26, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBMXSumter65 min
Mar 26, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Lee44 min
Mar 26, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBClarke, Wilcox39 min
Mar 26, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Tallapoosa61 min
Mar 26, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale, Marengo50 min
Mar 26, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBWilcox46 min
Mar 26, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke43 min
Mar 26, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBMXChambers, Randolph55 min
Mar 26, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa49 min
Mar 26, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBMXSumter64 min
Mar 26, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXHale, Marengo21 min
Mar 26, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas, Lowndes61 min
Mar 26, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw31 min
Mar 26, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke, Washington48 min
Mar 26, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBWilcox15 min
Mar 26, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Hale, Marengo47 min
Mar 26, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox50 min
Mar 26, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox45 min
Mar 26, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBWilcox17 min
Mar 26, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas44 min
Mar 26, 8:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXChilton, Coosa, Tallapoosa4 hr
Mar 26, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Wilcox51 min
Mar 26, 9:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBChoctaw79 min
Mar 26, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga, Lowndes60 min
Mar 26, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke, Monroe, Wilcox43 min
Mar 26, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore, Montgomery39 min
Mar 26, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Coosa, Lee, Macon, Randolph, Tallapoosa69 min
Mar 26, 10:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXChambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa2 hr
Mar 26, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXElmore, Tallapoosa12 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 10:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Chambers, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Elmore and 7 more3 hr
Mar 26, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 17 more7 hr
Mar 26, 1:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Sumter, Washington2 hr
Mar 26, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Wilcox5 hr
Mar 26, 4:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa and 13 more119 min
Mar 26, 6:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa and 13 more56 min
Mar 26, 6:34 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 19 more5 hr
Mar 26, 9:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Choctaw, Dallas, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes and 5 more91 min
Mar 26, 11:23 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 16 more2 hr
Mar 26, 12:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 23 more6 hr
Mar 26, 2:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 17 more113 min
Mar 26, 5:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 21 more94 min
Mar 26, 6:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.