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Tornado Watch 140
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 23, 2020, 10:52 AM EDT for 10 counties in Florida; 46 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2020, 10:52 AM EDT (14:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 56 counties
Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Miller and 2 more | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 11:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair and 3 more | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady and 5 more | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Thomas | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 11:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Dougherty, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 12:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 12:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Grady, Thomas | 16 min |
| Apr 23, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Grady and 6 more | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 12:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 3 more | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Echols, Ware | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 1:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch and 4 more | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Pierce, Ware | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Pierce, Ware, Wayne | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 2:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Ware | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Seminole | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 3:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 24 min |
| Apr 23, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty, Washington | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Early, Seminole | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Early, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 30 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1318 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 455 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 663 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 3:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 5:05 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 10:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 1:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 3:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon and 6 more | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 3:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia and 17 more | 96 min |
| Apr 23, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 1:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Brantley, Clinch, Echols, Lanier, Lowndes and 3 more | 95 min |
| Apr 23, 2:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chatham, Effingham, Screven | 83 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.