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Tornado Watch 7

February 12, 202522 counties in Alabama; Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 12, 2025, 8:45 PM CST for 22 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: Feb 12, 2025, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 25 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler 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, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 60%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 12, 9:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe	33 min
Feb 12, 9:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe	27 min
Feb 12, 10:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	23 min
Feb 12, 10:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Perry	6 hr
Feb 12, 10:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa	6 hr
Feb 12, 11:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Monroe, Wilcox	37 min
Feb 12, 11:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	35 min
Feb 13, 12:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	33 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 552 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 619 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

688 
WWUS20 KWNS 130240
SEL7  
SPC WW 130240
ALZ000-MSZ000-130900-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 7
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
845 PM CST Wed Feb 12 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of 
  Southern Alabama
  Southeast Mississippi

* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 845 PM
  until 300 AM CST.

* Primary threats include...
  A few tornadoes and a couple intense tornadoes likely
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms will affect the watch area through
the overnight area, in a region of very strong low-level winds.  A
few of the storms may occasionally pose a risk of tornadoes and
damaging wind gusts.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 45 statute miles
north and south of a line from 125 miles west of Evergreen AL to 35
miles south southeast of Auburn AL. For a complete depiction of the
watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch
area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for
threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements
and possible warnings.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 6...

AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail
surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind
gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean
storm motion vector 25035.

...Hart

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 12, 6:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Crenshaw and 10 more	90 min
Feb 12, 9:10 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 15 more	95 min
Feb 12, 11:18 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 12 more	87 min
Feb 13, 12:59 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 5 more	2 hr

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.