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Tornado Watch 642
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 18, 2025, 5:04 PM CST for 17 counties in Alabama; 11 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2025, 5:04 PM CST (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2025, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 28 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, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 41 min |
| Dec 18, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 20 min |
| Dec 18, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 66 min |
| Dec 18, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton | 42 min |
| Dec 18, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Limestone | 67 min |
| Dec 18, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 31 min |
| Dec 18, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 45 min |
| Dec 18, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Limestone, Madison | 42 min |
| Dec 18, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 63 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 4:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 14 more | 84 min |
| Dec 18, 3:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more | 117 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.