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Tornado Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 6, 2008, 7:06 AM CST for 12 counties in Alabama; 6 counties in Florida; 53 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2008, 7:06 AM CST (13:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2008, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 71 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike 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, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 7:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Elmore, Lee, Macon, Montgomery and 2 more | 65 min |
| Feb 6, 8:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 36 min |
| Feb 6, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 37 min |
| Feb 6, 9:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 17 min |
| Feb 6, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 46 min |
| Feb 6, 9:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 41 min |
| Feb 6, 10:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 29 min |
| Feb 6, 10:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Quitman, Randolph | 22 min |
| Feb 6, 11:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 32 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 061308
SEL8
SPC WW 061308
ALZ000-FLZ000-GAZ000-061900-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 48
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
805 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA
FLORIDA PANHANDLE
WESTERN AND NORTHERN GEORGIA
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON FROM 805 AM UNTIL
200 PM EST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 60 STATUTE
MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES WEST OF PANAMA CITY
FLORIDA TO 20 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF ATLANTA GEORGIA. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 46...WW 47...
DISCUSSION...BAND OF STG-SVR TSTMS WITH EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS IS
EXPECTED TO SHIFT EWD ACROSS WW AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS.
FOREGOING AIR MASS SHOULD DESTABILIZE FAVORABLY TO SUPPORT
ADDITIONAL WIND DAMAGE AND TORNADO POTENTIAL...AMIDST LARGE VALUES
OF BOTH LOW-LEVEL AND DEEP-LAYER VERTICAL SHEAR.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24045.
...EDWARDS/EVANSSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 9:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 96 min |
| Feb 5, 10:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:23 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:06 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 5:04 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 6:10 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 3 more | 85 min |
| Feb 6, 1:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 53 min |
| Feb 6, 7:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, Rabun and 4 more | 116 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.