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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 82
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 14, 2014, 7:49 PM CDT for 9 counties in Alabama; 13 counties in Florida; 8 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2014, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2014, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 30 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 8:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 117 min |
| Apr 14, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 9:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 1:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Geneva, Houston | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 3:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 11:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough and 13 more | 3 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.