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Tornado Watch 172

April 8, 200657 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 2006, 3:10 AM EDT for 57 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 2006, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2006, 9:25 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar 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, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 3:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Cobb, Fulton47 min
Apr 8, 4:03 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCCobb, Fulton27 min
Apr 8, 4:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett45 min
Apr 8, 4:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson51 min
Apr 8, 4:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Walton33 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2006-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 401 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2006-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 8:28 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 37 more9 hr
Apr 7, 11:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 34 more89 min
Apr 8, 12:05 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLauderdale115 min
Apr 8, 3:30 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 33 more90 min
Apr 8, 7:42 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRussell93 min
Apr 8, 9:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 2 more113 min
Apr 8, 10:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia and 4 more7 hr
Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeneva, Henry, Houston2 hr
Apr 7, 9:20 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee and 25 more10 hr
Apr 8, 3:45 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham and 8 more60 min
Apr 8, 12:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 17 more2 hr
Apr 8, 1:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 27 more8 hr
Apr 8, 4:22 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 13 more113 min
Apr 8, 4:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrooks, Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas4 hr
Apr 8, 6:59 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCamden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Lowndes, Ware91 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.