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Tornado Watch 85
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2022, 6:40 AM EDT for 17 counties in Florida; 49 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2022, 6:40 AM EDT (10:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2022, 3:41 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 66 counties
Baker County, FL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton 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, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Charlton 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, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis 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, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Seminole 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, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 113 min |
| Mar 31, 7:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Leon, Liberty and 1 more | 93 min |
| Mar 31, 8:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 96 min |
| Mar 31, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 11:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Irwin | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 11:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 11:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 16 min |
| Mar 31, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Pierce, Ware | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 12:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Pierce, Ware | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 26 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 31, 12:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 114 min |
| Mar 31, 4:54 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Pasco, Putnam and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee and 43 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch and 23 more | 92 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.