Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 866
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 26, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 6:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 142 counties
Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia 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, Early County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart 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, Lincoln County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie 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, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens 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, Mecklenburg County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 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
47 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 9:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 10:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 11:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 11:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 11:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 11:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 11:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Hart | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 1:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Aug 26, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 2:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rabun | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 18 min |
| Aug 26, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Pickens | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 119 min |
| Aug 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon, Peach | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 24 min |
| Aug 26, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, Union | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 15 min |
| Aug 26, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert | 27 min |
| Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry, Saluda | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 29 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 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
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, 1:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 7 more | 7 hr |
| 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, 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 |
| Aug 26, 10:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Columbus, Hoke, Mecklenburg, Richmond and 4 more | 57 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.