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Tornado Watch 131
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 6, 2025, 2:46 AM CDT for 31 counties in Alabama; 14 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2025, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 4:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pickens | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 114 min |
| Apr 6, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 7:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby | 112 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 8:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar, Lauderdale and 7 more | 90 min |
| Apr 6, 1:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, DeKalb, Etowah, Marshall, St. Clair | 54 min |
| Apr 6, 3:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Jefferson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 113 min |
| Apr 6, 7:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 7 more | 116 min |
| Apr 6, 9:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 32 more | 96 min |
| Apr 6, 10:01 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 17 more | 97 min |
| Apr 6, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more | 87 min |
| Apr 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 13 more | 117 min |
| Apr 6, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Dodge, Dooly, Glascock, Houston and 13 more | 53 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.