Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 96
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2022, 12:03 PM EDT for 75 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2022, 12:03 PM EDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 75 counties
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, 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, 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, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike 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, 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, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
51 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart, Webster | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 1:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 1:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Quitman | 20 min |
| Apr 5, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Lee, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Marion, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Webster | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Lamar, Macon, Monroe and 2 more | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Miller and 3 more | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 3:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon | 22 min |
| Apr 5, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Peach and 4 more | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 3:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Early | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon, Peach | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Houston, Jones, Peach, Twiggs and 1 more | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Pulaski | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Miller and 4 more | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Dougherty, Irwin, Lee, Tift and 2 more | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Pulaski | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Worth | 41 min |
| Apr 5, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Johnson, Laurens, Pulaski, Telfair and 3 more | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Turner | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Twiggs, Washington, Wilkinson | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 11 min |
| Apr 5, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin and 6 more | 66 min |
| Apr 5, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Tift, Worth | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair and 3 more | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Montgomery, Toombs | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler | 20 min |
| Apr 5, 5:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 20 min |
| Apr 5, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Ware | 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 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 5, 7:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 7:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:45 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Santa Rosa | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 11:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon and 2 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 4:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion, Nassau and 3 more | 113 min |
| Apr 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Nassau and 1 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 1:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 36 more | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Charlton and 16 more | 115 min |
| Apr 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 24 more | 83 min |
Nearby
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.