Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 72
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 12, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT for 18 counties in Alabama; Holmes County, Jackson County, Florida; 73 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 93 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Grady County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph 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, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 12, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 25 min |
| Apr 12, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 27 min |
| Apr 12, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 37 min |
| Apr 12, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 22 min |
| Apr 12, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 26 min |
| Apr 12, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 17 min |
| Apr 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 30 min |
| Apr 12, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 32 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 1:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 18 more | 117 min |
| Apr 12, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay, Coffee and 15 more | 59 min |
| Apr 12, 3:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hendry, Lee, Manatee and 1 more | 88 min |
| Apr 12, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 12, 6:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 16 more | 87 min |
| Apr 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Liberty and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 1:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chatham, Effingham, Screven | 87 min |
| Apr 12, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 7 more | 113 min |
| Apr 12, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Emanuel and 19 more | 91 min |
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.