Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 712
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 25, 2010, 5:35 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2010, 5:35 AM EDT (09:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2010, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 119 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke 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, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray 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, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley 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, Toombs County, GA, Towns County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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.
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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 5:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 23 min |
| Oct 25, 5:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 41 min |
| Oct 25, 6:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 31 min |
| Oct 25, 6:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens | 44 min |
| Oct 25, 6:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 6:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| Oct 25, 6:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Heard | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 6:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 43 min |
| Oct 25, 6:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 79 min |
| Oct 25, 7:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 7:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry and 2 more | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 7:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, Transylvania | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 8:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 76 min |
| Oct 25, 8:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 18 min |
| Oct 25, 8:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Burke, Cleveland, Henderson, McDowell, Mitchell and 3 more | 58 min |
| Oct 25, 8:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Transylvania | 31 min |
| Oct 25, 10:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 10:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen | 42 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 00:00Z, 9.6 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 9:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman and 23 more | 67 min |
| Oct 24, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 24 more | 55 min |
| Oct 25, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 27 more | 113 min |
| Oct 25, 7:34 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 7:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Crenshaw, Elmore, Lee and 6 more | 116 min |
| Oct 25, 11:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 8:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Crisp, Dodge and 18 more | 31 min |
| Oct 25, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Dodge, Dooly and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 9 more | 63 min |
| Oct 25, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Crisp and 21 more | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 10:44 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson and 30 more | 61 min |
| Oct 25, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chatham, Chowan and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 16 more | 92 min |
| Oct 24, 8:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardeman | 59 min |
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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.