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Tornado Watch 43
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 28, 2009, 5:43 PM CST for 5 counties in Alabama; 24 counties in Florida; 45 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2009, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2009, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 74 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Baker County, FL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 36 min |
| Feb 28, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner, Worth | 46 min |
| Feb 28, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 44 min |
| Feb 28, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady | 18 min |
| Feb 28, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift, Turner, Worth | 45 min |
| Feb 28, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 43 min |
| Feb 28, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 40 min |
| Feb 28, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early | 52 min |
| Feb 28, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 14 min |
| Feb 28, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 39 min |
| Mar 1, 12:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 1:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 17 min |
| Mar 1, 1:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 66 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 30 more | 97 min |
| Feb 27, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 27, 8:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more | 117 min |
| Feb 27, 10:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 23 more | 118 min |
| Feb 28, 2:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 25 more | 90 min |
| Feb 28, 2:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more | 86 min |
| Feb 28, 10:39 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:50 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Washington | 85 min |
| Feb 28, 3:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Nassau | 93 min |
| Feb 28, 7:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Crawford and 43 more | 3 hr |
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.