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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 67

March 31, 200213 counties in Alabama; 11 counties in Florida; 55 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 31, 2002, 12:45 PM CST for 13 counties in Alabama; 11 counties in Florida; 55 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 2002, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2002, 6:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 79 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 1:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington43 min
Mar 31, 1:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike43 min
Mar 31, 1:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter40 min
Mar 31, 1:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHenry, Houston2 hr
Mar 31, 1:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour27 min
Mar 31, 2:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell55 min
Mar 31, 2:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge25 min
Mar 31, 2:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWorth3 hr
Mar 31, 2:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour14 min
Mar 31, 3:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes, Walton101 min
Mar 31, 4:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHouston84 min
Mar 31, 4:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDougherty, Lee32 min
Mar 31, 5:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker, Mitchell28 min
Mar 31, 5:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGrady53 min
Mar 31, 5:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGrady50 min
Mar 31, 5:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWorth66 min
Mar 31, 5:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMitchell70 hr
Mar 31, 5:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt70 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1340 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1340 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 8:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more5 hr
Mar 31, 12:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Coffee and 24 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Florida, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002

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.