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Tornado Watch 60
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 15, 2026, 9:28 PM CDT for 35 counties in Alabama; 12 parishes in Louisiana; 43 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2026, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2026, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 90 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Ascension Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 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
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Warren | 58 min |
| Mar 15, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Yazoo | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 57 min |
| Mar 15, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Winston | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Mar 15, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston | 76 min |
| Mar 15, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Mar 15, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 1:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Mar 16, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 3:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 15 min |
| Mar 16, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 43 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Mobile and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 15, 10:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale, Limestone | 88 min |
| Mar 15, 10:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Chilton, Clarke, Coosa, Dallas, Marengo and 3 more | 54 min |
| Mar 16, 2:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Covington and 13 more | 113 min |
| Mar 16, 3:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay and 21 more | 8 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.