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Tornado Watch 125
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2020, 10:13 PM CDT for 7 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 43 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2020, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2020, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 67 counties
Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva | 84 min |
| Apr 19, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry, Houston | 95 min |
| Apr 19, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 20 min |
| Apr 19, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 12:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 28 min |
| Apr 20, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee and 5 more | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Calhoun, Colquitt, Cook and 9 more | 67 min |
| Apr 20, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jackson, Leon | 68 min |
| Apr 20, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 20, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 3 more | 67 min |
| Apr 20, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 82 min |
| Apr 20, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 5:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Taylor | 85 min |
| Apr 20, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie | 15 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 17.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Crenshaw, Dale, Henry, Macon and 3 more | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile | 83 min |
| Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 9:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 67 min |
| Apr 20, 12:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 83 min |
| Apr 20, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 16 more | 86 min |
| Apr 20, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 20, 7:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Citrus, Flagler, Levy, Marion, Putnam and 2 more | 87 min |
| Apr 20, 10:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lake and 10 more | 114 min |
| Apr 20, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Indian River, Manatee, Okeechobee and 4 more | 90 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.