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Tornado Watch 22
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 12, 2024, 1:41 AM CST for 29 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2024, 1:41 AM CST (07:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2024, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 44 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:42 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lee | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 43 min |
| Feb 12, 3:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 43 min |
| Feb 12, 7:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 86 min |
| Feb 12, 8:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Houston | 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 4:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale, Escambia and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Geneva, Henry, Houston | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 9:01 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 58 min |
| Feb 11, 6:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 20 more | 85 min |
| Feb 11, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar and 7 more | 86 min |
| Feb 12, 3:43 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 3 hr |
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.