Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 10
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 24, 2010, 11:26 AM CST for 27 counties in Alabama; 5 counties in Florida; 51 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2010, 11:26 AM CST (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2010, 4:36 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 83 counties
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, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- 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
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 17 min |
| Jan 24, 2:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne, Randolph | 116 min |
| Jan 24, 2:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 4:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Randolph | 117 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 656 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 756 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 6:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 11 more | 119 min |
| Jan 24, 6:28 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay and 17 more | 65 min |
| Jan 24, 1:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay and 19 more | 54 min |
| Jan 24, 4:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 84 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.