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Tornado Watch 15

January 9, 20009 counties in Alabama; 29 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 9, 2000, 5:00 PM CST for 9 counties in Alabama; 29 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 9, 2000, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 38 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bibb County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

744 
WWUS9 KMKC 092241
SEL5  
MKC WW 092241
ALZ000-GAZ000-100400-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
541 PM EST SUN JAN 9 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   SOUTHEAST ALABAMA                            
   WESTERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA                            

EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 600 PM UNTIL 1100
PM EST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF TROY ALABAMA TO 15
MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MACON GEORGIA.

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.


DISCUSSION...NUMEROUS SMALL SUPERCELLS HAVE DEVELOPED LATE THIS
AFTERNOON...AIDED BY WARM ADVECTION INVOF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY.
ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY OCCUR THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AS DEEP
LAYER SHEAR INCREASES.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 400. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25025.


...VESCIO

315,0832 310,0861 323,0861 332,0832

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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.