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Tornado Watch 120
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2014, 12:45 AM CDT for 13 counties in Florida; 16 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2014, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2014, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 12:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 1:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 1:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 1:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 2:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 30, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Miller | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf | 34 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 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 9:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 59 min |
| Apr 29, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty | 96 min |
| Apr 30, 4:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 88 min |
| Apr 30, 8:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Liberty and 2 more | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Putnam and 3 more | 119 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.