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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 547
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 14, 2014, 11:43 AM EDT for 22 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2014, 11:43 AM EDT (15:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 48 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Levy County, FL, Madison County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 61 min |
| Oct 14, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 56 min |
| Oct 14, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton, Suwannee | 29 min |
| Oct 14, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols, Ware | 38 min |
| Oct 14, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Ware | 49 min |
| Oct 14, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Ware | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker | 28 min |
| Oct 14, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 25 min |
| Oct 14, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 21 min |
| Oct 14, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Nassau | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Pierce and 1 more | 64 min |
| Oct 14, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 47 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 502 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 8:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 53 min |
| Oct 14, 3:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Washington | 83 min |
| Oct 14, 4:27 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 14, 8:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more | 85 min |
| Oct 14, 11:21 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Jefferson and 8 more | 114 min |
| Oct 13, 9:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 59 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:22 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Elbert, Emanuel and 9 more | 83 min |
| Oct 14, 6:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Effingham, Elbert and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke and 45 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts and 53 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 7 more | 32 min |
| Oct 14, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more | 91 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.