Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 77
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 2008, 4:41 AM CST for 14 counties in Alabama; 72 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 4:41 AM CST (10:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 86 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether 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, Pulaski 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, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup 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
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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.
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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 4:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 5:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 42 min |
| Feb 26, 5:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 5:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 24 min |
| Feb 26, 5:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Jackson, Newton, Walton | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 6:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and 1 more | 43 min |
| Feb 26, 6:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 6:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 6:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 6:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 7:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Macon, Russell | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Upson | 32 min |
| Feb 26, 7:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 18 min |
| Feb 26, 7:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 43 min |
| Feb 26, 7:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 56 min |
| Feb 26, 7:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe, Taylor | 25 min |
| Feb 26, 8:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot | 39 min |
| Feb 26, 8:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 25 min |
| Feb 26, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 9:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs | 24 min |
| Feb 26, 9:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Pulaski | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 9:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 65 min |
| Feb 26, 10:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Wheeler | 29 min |
| Feb 26, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 30 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 11:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 7 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette and 12 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 6:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 83 min |
| Feb 26, 9:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 26, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 31 more | 88 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.