Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 40
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 9, 2022, 6:18 AM EST for 12 counties in Florida; 60 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2022, 6:18 AM EST (11:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2022, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 72 counties
Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee 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, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson 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, Montgomery 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, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 6:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 7:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Stewart, Webster | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 7:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 7:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 8:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 8:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley | 24 min |
| Mar 9, 8:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 8:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 8:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon | 15 min |
| Mar 9, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 9:09 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty, Wakulla | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 9:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 9:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 9:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 10:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 10:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Wakulla | 27 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:58 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:21 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:28 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Holmes, Okaloosa, Walton, Washington | 92 min |
| Mar 9, 5:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison and 2 more | 118 min |
| Mar 9, 8:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Gilchrist and 9 more | 90 min |
| Mar 9, 6:03 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Lake, Levy and 8 more | 117 min |
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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.