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Tornado Watch 59

April 14, 201975 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2019, 7:28 AM EDT for 75 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 14, 2019, 7:28 AM EDT (11:28 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
55 kt
All 75 counties

Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 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
30%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
10%
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

16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 7:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Dade, Walker41 min
Apr 14, 7:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Floyd47 min
Apr 14, 9:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee48 min
Apr 14, 9:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson, Polk17 min
Apr 14, 10:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot45 min
Apr 14, 10:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTalbot, Upson48 min
Apr 14, 11:17 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCLamar, Pike, Talbot, Upson28 min
Apr 14, 11:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Spalding35 min
Apr 14, 11:53 AM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatFFCButts, Henry, Spalding14 min
Apr 14, 12:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Gwinnett, Jackson, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale and 1 more42 min
Apr 14, 12:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Houston, Twiggs24 min
Apr 14, 12:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson47 min
Apr 14, 1:01 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCGwinnett29 min
Apr 14, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin, White26 min
Apr 14, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Hall, Jackson26 min
Apr 14, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson32 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2019-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2019-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 1:39 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker66 min
Apr 14, 5:20 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Coweta, Dade and 11 more115 min
Apr 14, 6:36 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Coweta, Dade and 11 more54 min
Apr 14, 8:28 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook and 15 more3 hr
Apr 14, 10:40 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more6 hr
Apr 14, 11:07 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Bibb, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 53 more83 min
Apr 14, 11:48 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColumbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, McDuffie and 5 more117 min
Apr 14, 12:54 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Elbert, Emanuel and 26 more6 hr
Apr 14, 2:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch and 9 more83 min
Apr 14, 3:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCatoosa, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more2 hr
Apr 14, 3:02 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 17 more4 hr
Apr 14, 4:04 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 20 more116 min
Apr 14, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton and 28 more6 hr
Apr 14, 5:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEffingham2 hr
Apr 14, 7:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham and 11 more2 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.