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Tornado Watch 185

May 6, 20228 counties in Alabama; 18 counties in Florida; 73 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2022, 11:57 AM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; 18 counties in Florida; 73 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2022, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 99 counties

Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen 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, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Worth	35 min
May 6, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Randolph, Terrell, Turner and 1 more	54 min
May 6, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty	50 min
May 6, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	40 min
May 6, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	48 min
May 6, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	41 min
May 6, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Sumter	25 min
May 6, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	29 min
May 6, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Thomas, Tift and 1 more	25 min
May 6, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston, Pulaski	38 min
May 6, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	35 min
May 6, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox	31 min
May 6, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	46 min
May 6, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs	39 min
May 6, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	15 min
May 6, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	42 min
May 6, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	24 min
May 6, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen	39 min
May 6, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson	32 min
May 6, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	21 min
May 6, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Toombs	32 min
May 6, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Treutlen, Washington	38 min
May 6, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Liberty	37 min
May 6, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson	34 min
May 6, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	37 min
May 6, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	35 min
May 6, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski	43 min
May 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	26 min
May 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gulf	32 min
May 6, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Wakulla	25 min
May 6, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	25 min
May 6, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Taylor	23 min
May 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Hamilton	51 min
May 6, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Taylor	23 min
May 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton	47 min
May 6, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	26 min
May 6, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton	34 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 2:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Mobile	2 hr
May 6, 5:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Pike	93 min
May 6, 9:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Houston	56 min
May 6, 10:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston, Mobile	4 hr
May 6, 10:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Henry, Houston, Russell	2 hr
May 6, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 8 more	113 min
May 6, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Duval, Gilchrist and 2 more	6 hr
May 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Columbia, Franklin, Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee and 1 more	60 min
May 6, 12:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray and 4 more	86 min
May 6, 12:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banks, Catoosa, Dawson, Elbert, Fannin, Franklin and 13 more	6 hr
May 6, 3:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fannin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens, Towns and 2 more	57 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.