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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 261
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2014, 1:49 PM CDT for 14 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Florida; 18 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2014, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Wakulla | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Houston | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 16 min |
| Jun 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 56 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Cullman, Etowah and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 4 more | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chilton, Clay and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clay, Coosa and 16 more | 97 min |
| Jun 8, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more | 97 min |
| Jun 8, 12:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte and 38 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 17 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Florida, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2014
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.