Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 949
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 10, 2008, 6:47 AM CST for 28 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 86 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2008, 6:47 AM CST (12:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2008, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 124 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam 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, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Webster County, GA, White County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 6:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne, Randolph | 15 min |
| Dec 10, 6:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Dec 10, 7:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Dec 10, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 7:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 27 min |
| Dec 10, 7:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 7:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 112 min |
| Dec 10, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 49 min |
| Dec 10, 7:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 8:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Dec 10, 8:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 8:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 8:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 29 min |
| Dec 10, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 41 min |
| Dec 10, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 26 min |
| Dec 10, 9:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 14 min |
| Dec 10, 9:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 41 min |
| Dec 10, 9:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 6:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 90 min |
| Dec 9, 8:03 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Butler, Chilton, Coosa, Crenshaw, Elmore and 4 more | 54 min |
| Dec 9, 11:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Chilton, Coosa, Cullman, Jefferson, Marshall and 3 more | 63 min |
| Dec 10, 1:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 42 more | 65 min |
| Dec 10, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 31 more | 59 min |
| Dec 10, 5:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 31 more | 61 min |
| Dec 10, 10:45 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 1:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 67 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.