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Tornado Watch 553
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 17, 2014, 6:11 AM EST for 13 counties in Florida; 75 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 2014, 6:11 AM EST (11:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2014, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 88 counties
Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Ware County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:11 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
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 6:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 43 min |
| Nov 17, 6:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller, Mitchell | 40 min |
| Nov 17, 6:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 27 min |
| Nov 17, 6:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 50 min |
| Nov 17, 7:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 57 min |
| Nov 17, 7:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 43 min |
| Nov 17, 7:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell | 30 min |
| Nov 17, 7:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 28 min |
| Nov 17, 8:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 52 min |
| Nov 17, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Macon, Marion, Peach, Schley, Talbot and 2 more | 46 min |
| Nov 17, 8:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 49 min |
| Nov 17, 8:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs | 39 min |
| Nov 17, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 45 min |
| Nov 17, 9:24 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Nov 17, 9:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson | 46 min |
| Nov 17, 10:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Coffee | 45 min |
| Nov 17, 11:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 52 min |
| Nov 17, 11:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Pierce, Ware | 48 min |
| Nov 17, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee and 1 more | 54 min |
| Nov 17, 12:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Union | 32 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 12:50 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 55 min |
| Nov 17, 2:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 12 more | 32 min |
| Nov 17, 2:32 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 17, 5:39 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more | 66 min |
| Nov 17, 8:43 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden and 15 more | 92 min |
| Nov 17, 10:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 17, 12:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Dixie, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 17, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:10 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Manatee and 5 more | 65 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.