Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 385
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 2013, 11:26 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2013, 11:26 AM CDT (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 134 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia 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, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Clarke County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Shelby | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 30 min |
| Jun 28, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Miller, Seminole | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Tift | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 34 min |
| Jun 28, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Meriwether, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton, Spalding | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach, Taylor, Twiggs | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Spalding | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 31 min |
| Jun 28, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Terrell | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Jun 28, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam, Washington, Wilkinson | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Wilkinson | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 44 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 4271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 9 more | 89 min |
| Jun 28, 9:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Cullman, Dallas and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 31 more | 94 min |
| Jun 28, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 9 more | 97 min |
| Jun 28, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler and 11 more | 84 min |
| Jun 28, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 52 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah, Tunica | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 28, 12:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, Copiah and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes and 16 more | 94 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.