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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 55
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 24, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT for 12 counties in Florida; 38 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2016, 8:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 50 counties
Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph | 21 min |
| Mar 24, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 19 min |
| Mar 24, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 37 min |
| Mar 24, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 31 min |
| Mar 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 28 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 11:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola and 3 more | 2 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.