Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 3
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 11, 2014, 10:04 AM CST for 4 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2014, 10:04 AM CST (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2014, 3:40 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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
- 5%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell | 33 min |
| Jan 11, 10:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 11:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon, Liberty and 1 more | 40 min |
| Jan 11, 11:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 46 min |
| Jan 11, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 38 min |
| Jan 11, 12:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 52 min |
| Jan 11, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jan 11, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 47 min |
| Jan 11, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 66 min |
| Jan 11, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie | 26 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, 4.1 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 11:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jan 11, 3:18 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh and 13 more | 117 min |
| Jan 11, 7:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh and 12 more | 27 min |
| Jan 11, 7:07 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Montgomery and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 97 min |
| Jan 11, 2:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 3 more | 55 min |
| Jan 11, 8:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hart | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Lincoln, McDuffie | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Richmond | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:17 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bryan and 32 more | 58 min |
| Jan 11, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 20 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richmond | 56 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.