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Tornado Watch 576
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 26, 2013, 3:01 PM EST for 24 counties in Florida; 21 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2013, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2013, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Levy County, FL, Madison County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Marion County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Echols County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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
- 40%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 3:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell | 41 min |
| Nov 26, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Nov 26, 5:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Pierce, Ware | 40 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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, 6:26 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 26, 9:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 26, 1:18 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Citrus, Columbia and 26 more | 87 min |
| Nov 26, 6:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 86 min |
| Nov 26, 3:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 26, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 13 more | 7 hr |
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.