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Tornado Watch 543
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 13, 2014, 10:44 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2014, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 4:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 73 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Bartow County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Troup County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 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
- 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 51 min |
| Oct 14, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 31 min |
| Oct 14, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 49 min |
| Oct 14, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 27 min |
| Oct 14, 2:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens | 49 min |
| Oct 14, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington | 30 min |
| Oct 14, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf | 42 min |
| Oct 14, 3:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 7 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton | 29 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 13, 7:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Jackson, Jefferson, Lauderdale and 9 more | 57 min |
| Oct 13, 8:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Butler, Coffee, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 53 min |
| Oct 14, 2:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Chambers, Dale, Henry, Houston, Lee and 2 more | 83 min |
| Oct 14, 3:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 8 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more | 85 min |
| Oct 14, 10:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Jefferson and 8 more | 114 min |
| Oct 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 59 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 5:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Elbert, Emanuel and 9 more | 83 min |
| Oct 14, 5:57 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Effingham, Elbert and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke and 45 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts and 53 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 7 more | 32 min |
| Oct 14, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more | 91 min |
| Oct 13, 10:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cumberland, Fentress, Knox and 9 more | 64 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.