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Tornado Watch 866

August 26, 20084 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 9:30 AM CDTTornado WarningGSPUnion30 min
Aug 26, 9:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg3 hr
Aug 26, 10:34 AM CDTTornado WarningFFCCrawford, Monroe41 min
Aug 26, 10:52 AM CDTTornado WarningCAEKershaw, Lancaster38 min
Aug 26, 11:04 AM CDTTornado WarningFFCJasper, Jones41 min
Aug 26, 11:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCAEKershaw, Lancaster51 min
Aug 26, 11:14 AM CDTTornado WarningGSPChester31 min
Aug 26, 11:28 AM CDTTornado WarningFFCCrisp47 min
Aug 26, 11:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCAEFairfield42 min
Aug 26, 11:40 AM CDTTornado WarningFFCJasper, Morgan, Putnam50 min
Aug 26, 12:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCOconee, Walton29 min
Aug 26, 12:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPUnion36 min
Aug 26, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke, Jackson, Madison30 min
Aug 26, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WarningCAELancaster40 min
Aug 26, 1:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCClarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe29 min
Aug 26, 1:01 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPHart44 min
Aug 26, 1:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFFCBanks, Jackson6 hr
Aug 26, 1:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGSPUnion3 hr
Aug 26, 1:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPOconee, Pickens49 min
Aug 26, 1:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson46 min
Aug 26, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WarningCAELancaster27 min
Aug 26, 2:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFFCNewton, Rockdale6 hr
Aug 26, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson, Greenville37 min
Aug 26, 2:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGSPRabun4 hr
Aug 26, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens48 min
Aug 26, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens18 min
Aug 26, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPPickens42 min
Aug 26, 2:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCAEFairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster119 min
Aug 26, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPChester42 min
Aug 26, 2:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCHall, White41 min
Aug 26, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg38 min
Aug 26, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson37 min
Aug 26, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCDooly, Houston, Macon, Peach50 min
Aug 26, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCBanks, Jackson24 min
Aug 26, 3:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGSPHabersham, Rabun4 hr
Aug 26, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe50 min
Aug 26, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg, Union51 min
Aug 26, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes58 min
Aug 26, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCBanks, Hall37 min
Aug 26, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPChester, Union40 min
Aug 26, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCBaldwin, Jones38 min
Aug 26, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningCAEFairfield47 min
Aug 26, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPChester50 min
Aug 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCWilkes15 min
Aug 26, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPElbert27 min
Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry, Saluda53 min
Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson29 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 348 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 11:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Dale, Henry, Houston and 2 more84 min
Aug 26, 1:36 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 7 more7 hr
Aug 26, 4:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Henry, Houston, Russell90 min
Aug 26, 7:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee89 min
Aug 26, 1:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon and 3 more58 min
Aug 26, 3:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Wakulla65 min
Aug 26, 8:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks and 72 more23 min
Aug 26, 5:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 29 more61 min
Aug 26, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 53 more12 hr
Aug 26, 10:18 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnson, Bladen, Columbus, Hoke, Mecklenburg, Richmond and 4 more57 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.