Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2016
Tornado Watch 24
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 24, 2016, 12:14 AM EST for 33 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 12:14 AM EST (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 1:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 2:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 3:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 25 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
742 WWUS20 KWNS 240511 SEL4 SPC WW 240511 GAZ000-241100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 24 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1215 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA * EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM 1215 AM UNTIL 600 AM EST. * PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE... A COUPLE TORNADOES POSSIBLE ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE SUMMARY...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST AL WILL TRACK EASTWARD ACROSS PARTS OF GA OVERNIGHT. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED INTENSE STORMS CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 30 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBUS GEORGIA TO 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF VIDALIA GEORGIA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 22...WW 23... AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035. ...HART
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 9:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 23, 10:07 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Clay, Early, Harris, Heard, Muscogee and 4 more | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 1:44 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 39 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:58 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bulloch, Candler and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 6:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 15 more | 87 min |
| Feb 24, 8:14 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Franklin and 12 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.