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Tornado Watch 722
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 28, 2024, 8:09 PM CST for 50 counties in Alabama; 8 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 28, 2024, 8:09 PM CST (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2024, 2:57 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 58 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Lee County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall 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, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 17 min |
| Dec 28, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc | 12 min |
| Dec 28, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 79 min |
| Dec 28, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 53 min |
| Dec 28, 9:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 14 min |
| Dec 28, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 27 min |
| Dec 28, 9:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion | 76 min |
| Dec 28, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 77 min |
| Dec 28, 9:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 53 min |
| Dec 28, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 77 min |
| Dec 28, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 75 min |
| Dec 28, 10:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 26 min |
| Dec 28, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 73 min |
| Dec 28, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 58 min |
| Dec 28, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 18 min |
| Dec 28, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 74 min |
| Dec 28, 10:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 66 min |
| Dec 28, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 80 min |
| Dec 28, 11:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 63 min |
| Dec 28, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 64 min |
| Dec 28, 11:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 56 min |
| Dec 29, 12:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 25 min |
| Dec 29, 12:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Dec 29, 12:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 66 min |
| Dec 29, 12:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 23 min |
| Dec 29, 1:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 31 min |
| Dec 29, 1:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa | 27 min |
| Dec 29, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell | 62 min |
| Dec 29, 1:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike, Russell | 55 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 28, 6:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa and 21 more | 91 min |
| Dec 28, 7:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 66 min |
| Dec 28, 9:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman and 21 more | 92 min |
| Dec 28, 10:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Escambia and 3 more | 97 min |
| Dec 28, 11:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 27 more | 116 min |
| Dec 29, 12:54 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 1:21 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell and 1 more | 54 min |
| Dec 29, 3:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 84 min |
| Dec 28, 6:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 60 min |
| Dec 28, 6:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne and 22 more | 86 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.