Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 596
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 6, 2023, 3:34 PM EDT for 66 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2023, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 66 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dade County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding and 1 more | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Troup | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 18 min |
| Aug 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Polk | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker, Whitfield | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Haralson, Heard, Polk | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 52 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Clarke, Columbia and 34 more | 94 min |
| Aug 6, 4:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts, Chattahoochee and 50 more | 88 min |
| Aug 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 13 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.