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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 79
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 2008, 7:39 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 7:39 AM CST (13:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 48 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston 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, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 7:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 23 min |
| Feb 26, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 26 min |
| Feb 26, 9:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 42 min |
| Feb 26, 9:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Thomas | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 63 min |
| Feb 26, 10:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 39 min |
| Feb 26, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 11:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 54 min |
| Feb 26, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 11:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 42 min |
| Feb 26, 11:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 17 min |
| Feb 26, 11:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Grady, Thomas | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 11:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 31 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 8 more | 7 hr |
| 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, 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 | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 20 more | 88 min |
| Feb 26, 1:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades and 22 more | 94 min |
| Feb 26, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 5 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.