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Tornado Watch 641
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 25, 2025, 12:05 PM CST for 31 counties in Alabama; Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 2025, 12:05 PM CST (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
All 34 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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
- 30%
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa | 52 min |
| Nov 25, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 48 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 3:42 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Cullman, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson and 7 more | 93 min |
| Nov 25, 5:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb | 96 min |
| Nov 25, 11:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 18 more | 114 min |
| Nov 24, 9:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Issaquena, Warren | 113 min |
| Nov 24, 10:46 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 25, 1:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 13 more | 92 min |
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.