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Tornado Watch 190

May 7, 20265 counties in Alabama; 13 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 7, 2026, 1:58 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama; 13 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2026, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 44 counties

Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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: 30%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 10%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	19 min
May 7, 6:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	70 min
May 7, 7:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston	56 min
May 7, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	40 min
May 7, 8:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	54 min
May 7, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	30 min
May 7, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	39 min
May 7, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	41 min
May 7, 10:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	27 min
May 7, 10:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	53 min
May 7, 10:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	33 min
May 7, 10:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	50 min
May 7, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Washington	62 min
May 7, 11:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty	64 min
May 7, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	66 min
May 7, 12:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	27 min
May 7, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	44 min
May 7, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	53 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Washington	59 min
May 6, 8:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Cleburne, Randolph, Russell	60 min
May 6, 8:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more	2 hr
May 6, 10:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 14 more	56 min
May 6, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 15 more	9 hr
May 7, 1:38 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 10 more	97 min
May 7, 4:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more	115 min
May 7, 7:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more	86 min
May 7, 9:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Escambia, Okaloosa, Walton	66 min
May 7, 9:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	2 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.