Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 2013
Tornado Watch 575
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 26, 2013, 8:54 AM CST for 14 counties in Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2013, 8:54 AM CST (14:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2013, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:56 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
- 20%
- 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
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 9:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Wakulla | 39 min |
| Nov 26, 9:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty | 33 min |
| Nov 26, 9:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin, Liberty | 30 min |
| Nov 26, 9:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun | 32 min |
| Nov 26, 10:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 32 min |
| Nov 26, 10:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 47 min |
| Nov 26, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 32 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 386 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 5:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 26, 12:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Citrus, Columbia and 26 more | 87 min |
| Nov 26, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 26, 5:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 86 min |
Nearby
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.