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Tornado Watch 100

April 6, 202279 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 6, 2022, 1:32 PM EDT for 79 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2022, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2022, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 79 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Randolph	39 min
Apr 6, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	35 min
Apr 6, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	39 min
Apr 6, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster	29 min
Apr 6, 3:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee	21 min
Apr 6, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Sumter	28 min
Apr 6, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	41 min
Apr 6, 3:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp, Sumter	33 min
Apr 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson	45 min
Apr 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee	15 min
Apr 6, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Peach, Twiggs	42 min
Apr 6, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Turner, Worth	44 min
Apr 6, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee	38 min
Apr 6, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	47 min
Apr 6, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Sumter, Wilcox	46 min
Apr 6, 4:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox	29 min
Apr 6, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Thomas	39 min
Apr 6, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Monroe	52 min
Apr 6, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson	44 min
Apr 6, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	43 min
Apr 6, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Lee, Worth	25 min
Apr 6, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Grady, Thomas	49 min
Apr 6, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	31 min
Apr 6, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	40 min
Apr 6, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Putnam	38 min
Apr 6, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	47 min
Apr 6, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	36 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	32 min
Apr 6, 6:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Houston, Lamar, Monroe and 4 more	5 hr
Apr 6, 6:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	5 hr
Apr 6, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	44 min
Apr 6, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Peach, Twiggs	28 min
Apr 6, 6:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks	31 min
Apr 6, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon, Peach	32 min
Apr 6, 7:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lowndes	30 min
Apr 6, 7:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lowndes	29 min
Apr 6, 7:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	35 min
Apr 6, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen and 1 more	48 min
Apr 6, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	23 min
Apr 6, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	47 min
Apr 6, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas	45 min
Apr 6, 8:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FFC	Emanuel	12 min
Apr 6, 8:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lowndes, Thomas	40 min
Apr 6, 8:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Thomas	40 min
Apr 6, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	18 min
Apr 6, 9:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks	39 min
Apr 6, 11:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Tift, Worth	39 min
Apr 6, 11:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Thomas	32 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 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 12:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 51 more	3 hr
Apr 6, 12:58 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brantley and 33 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 3:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 22 more	85 min
Apr 6, 4:02 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Chatham and 13 more	88 min
Apr 6, 4:21 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 22 more	8 hr
Apr 6, 4:43 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	62 min
Apr 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more	5 hr
Apr 6, 5:43 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Richmond	92 min
Apr 6, 7:25 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 7:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 38 more	2 hr

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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.