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Tornado Watch 42
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 15, 2025, 2:34 AM CDT for 17 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2025, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 6:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Perry County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 2:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 56 min |
| Mar 15, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 56 min |
| Mar 15, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 61 min |
| Mar 15, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 11 min |
| Mar 15, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 6:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 110 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 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 15, 2:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hale and 12 more | 87 min |
| Mar 15, 11:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 38 more | 86 min |
| Mar 15, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 41 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more | 89 min |
| Mar 15, 1:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 5 more | 119 min |
| Mar 15, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sumter | 83 min |
| Mar 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 95 min |
| Mar 15, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 17 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 9 more | 114 min |
| Mar 14, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 14, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake | 115 min |
| Mar 14, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 115 min |
| Mar 15, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy | 86 min |
| Mar 15, 9:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy, Shelby | 95 min |
| Mar 15, 12:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 31 more | 60 min |
| Mar 15, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 21 more | 90 min |
| Mar 15, 3:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 29 more | 94 min |
| Mar 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Hamilton and 12 more | 7 hr |
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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.