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Tornado Watch 50

March 1, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 1, 2007, 7:39 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 2007, 7:39 PM CST (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2007, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 144 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington 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, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale 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, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, McCormick County, SC

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	50 min
Mar 1, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Webster	20 min
Mar 1, 8:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Sumter	43 min
Mar 1, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	40 min
Mar 1, 8:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	38 min
Mar 1, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	45 min
Mar 1, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	32 min
Mar 1, 8:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dooly, Macon	27 min
Mar 1, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	26 min
Mar 1, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	54 min
Mar 1, 8:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	32 min
Mar 1, 8:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	13 min
Mar 1, 8:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Russell	39 min
Mar 1, 8:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Houston	24 min
Mar 1, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	47 min
Mar 1, 9:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	65 min
Mar 1, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs	30 min
Mar 1, 9:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens, Wilkinson	23 min
Mar 1, 9:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	26 min
Mar 1, 10:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell	37 min
Mar 1, 10:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Turner, Worth	49 min
Mar 1, 11:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	39 min
Mar 1, 11:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	60 min
Mar 1, 11:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	55 min
Mar 2, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	63 min
Mar 2, 12:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	54 min
Mar 2, 12:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	24 min
Mar 2, 1:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	63 min
Mar 2, 1:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson	25 min
Mar 2, 1:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Toombs	34 min
Mar 2, 1:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Madison	28 min
Mar 2, 1:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	35 min
Mar 2, 1:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	14 min
Mar 2, 2:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	18 min
Mar 2, 2:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	47 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 412 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 9:11 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 18 more	94 min
Mar 1, 11:54 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 10 more	7 hr
Mar 2, 1:33 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	87 min
Mar 2, 3:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 10 more	62 min
Mar 2, 5:21 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 13 more	84 min
Mar 2, 9:54 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake, Orange, Pasco and 3 more	2 hr
Mar 1, 7:27 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart and 5 more	9 hr
Mar 2, 2:00 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Richmond	90 min
Mar 1, 6:59 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aiken, Bamberg, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield and 18 more	91 min
Mar 1, 10:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro	91 min
Mar 1, 11:28 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion and 2 more	8 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.