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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 348

June 5, 200710 counties in Florida; 89 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2007, 1:24 PM EDT for 10 counties in Florida; 89 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2007, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2007, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 107 counties

Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee 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, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval39 min
Jun 5, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval43 min
Jun 5, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns20 min
Jun 5, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris28 min
Jun 5, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSEffingham51 min
Jun 5, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Laurens23 min
Jun 5, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort58 min
Jun 5, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston32 min
Jun 5, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston28 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton36 min
Jun 5, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens44 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Pulaski28 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley25 min
Jun 5, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon51 min
Jun 5, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter24 min
Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly51 min
Jun 5, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDecatur, Grady42 min
Jun 5, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSEffingham38 min
Jun 5, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSJenkins, Screven37 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSAllendale28 min
Jun 5, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEThomas39 min
Jun 5, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee33 min
Jun 5, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAETurner, Worth43 min
Jun 5, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEarly43 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1038 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 2007-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:53 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 17 more67 min
Jun 5, 12:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jackson and 8 more113 min
Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColumbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Madison and 1 more83 min
Jun 5, 6:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton and 3 more97 min
Jun 5, 5:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalhoun, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown and 8 more92 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.