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Tornado Watch 730
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 26, 2010, 8:03 PM CDT for 15 counties in Alabama; 32 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2010, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2010, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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.
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
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah, St. Clair | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 38 min |
| Oct 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair | 46 min |
| Oct 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair | 24 min |
| Oct 26, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega | 61 min |
| Oct 26, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair | 36 min |
| Oct 26, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 34 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 00:00Z, 1.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 8 more | 54 min |
| Oct 27, 5:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 16 more | 61 min |
| Oct 27, 5:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Clay and 15 more | 96 min |
| Oct 27, 9:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw, Clay and 11 more | 95 min |
| Oct 27, 11:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 27, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw and 23 more | 64 min |
| Oct 27, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 15 more | 65 min |
| Oct 26, 10:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 55 min |
| Oct 26, 11:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 66 min |
| Oct 27, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 7 hr |
| Oct 27, 4:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens, Towns and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 27, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, McDuffie | 6 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln | 87 min |
| Oct 27, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Lincoln | 67 min |
| Oct 27, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield and 11 more | 89 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.