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Tornado Watch 22
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 4, 2025, 5:41 PM CST for 23 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2025, 5:41 PM CST (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2025, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 26 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 59 min |
| Mar 4, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 4, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 4, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 4, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 53 min |
| Mar 4, 7:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 35 min |
| Mar 4, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 4, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Hale, Perry and 1 more | 63 min |
| Mar 4, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Lowndes | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery | 75 min |
| Mar 4, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 9:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe | 40 min |
| Mar 4, 10:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 51 min |
| Mar 4, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 59 min |
| Mar 4, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Montgomery, Pike | 77 min |
| Mar 4, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 66 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 4:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton and 27 more | 58 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.