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Tornado Watch 351
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 18, 2026, 7:55 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2026, 7:55 AM CDT (12:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2026, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 43 counties
Baldwin 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, Escambia County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 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
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
46 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 7:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 8:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 8:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 24 min |
| Jun 18, 8:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 23 min |
| Jun 18, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 8:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 8:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 8:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 8:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 9:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 21 min |
| Jun 18, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 9:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 26 min |
| Jun 18, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Stone | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 20 min |
| Jun 18, 10:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Perry | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 11:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 12:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 1:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 1:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pike | 77 min |
| Jun 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 51 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 141 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -954 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 18, 9:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 87 min |
| Jun 18, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more | 119 min |
| Jun 18, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Elmore and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington and 12 more | 87 min |
| Jun 18, 5:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 17 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 10 more | 116 min |
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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.