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Tornado Watch 865
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 26, 2008, 1:36 AM CDT for 13 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 45 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2008, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 68 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, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 1:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 19 min |
| Aug 26, 2:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 21 min |
| Aug 26, 8:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 8:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar | 22 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 11:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Dale, Henry, Houston and 2 more | 84 min |
| Aug 26, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Henry, Houston, Russell | 90 min |
| Aug 26, 7:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 89 min |
| Aug 26, 9:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon and 3 more | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 3:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Wakulla | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 8:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks and 72 more | 23 min |
| Aug 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 29 more | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 53 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2008Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2008Tornado Watches in Florida, 2008Every tornado watch in 2008
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.