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Tornado Watch 63
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 16, 2026, 3:10 AM CDT for 27 counties in Alabama; 9 counties in Florida; 71 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2026, 3:10 AM CDT (08:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2026, 10:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 107 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Webster County, GA, White County, GA, Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 15 min |
| Mar 16, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 20 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 |
| Mar 16, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Towns and 2 more | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Gordon, Pickens | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb and 5 more | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Hall and 5 more | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fayette, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 38 min |
| Mar 16, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 22 min |
| Mar 16, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Heard, Henry and 5 more | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clayton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Gwinnett and 5 more | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, White | 13 min |
| Mar 16, 5:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 20 min |
| Mar 16, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 6 more | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 5:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar, Meriwether, Newton and 2 more | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Lamar, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee and 3 more | 38 min |
| Mar 16, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 16 min |
| Mar 16, 5:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Talbot, Taylor | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Morgan, Newton and 1 more | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| Mar 16, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Talbot, Taylor and 1 more | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 6:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Macon and 4 more | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Putnam | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 6:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Webster | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 7:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones | 8 min |
| Mar 16, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Hancock, Houston, Jones, Laurens and 4 more | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter, Webster | 12 min |
| Mar 16, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty | 60 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 29 more | 7 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, 6:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 4 more | 96 min |
| Mar 16, 6:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 84 min |
| Mar 16, 11:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 14 more | 86 min |
| Mar 16, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Duval and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 13 more | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 3:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rabun, Towns, Union | 114 min |
| Mar 16, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Lincoln, Rabun and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 41 more | 89 min |
| Mar 16, 6:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Crawford and 28 more | 97 min |
| Mar 16, 10:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 90 min |
| Mar 16, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Georgetown, Horry | 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.