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Tornado Watch 12
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 4, 2023, 2:59 AM CST for 19 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Florida; 69 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2023, 2:59 AM CST (08:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2023, 10:23 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 100 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock 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, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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
- 40%
- 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
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 3:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 24 min |
| Jan 4, 3:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Jan 4, 3:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Randolph | 41 min |
| Jan 4, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Troup | 43 min |
| Jan 4, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon, Russell | 63 min |
| Jan 4, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 44 min |
| Jan 4, 4:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 28 min |
| Jan 4, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 42 min |
| Jan 4, 4:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry and 4 more | 23 min |
| Jan 4, 4:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Jan 4, 4:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 45 min |
| Jan 4, 5:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry | 44 min |
| Jan 4, 5:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 6:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 41 min |
| Jan 4, 6:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Walton | 4 hr |
| Jan 4, 7:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 19 min |
| Jan 4, 7:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 11 min |
| Jan 4, 7:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 7:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Walton and 1 more | 56 min |
| Jan 4, 7:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 28 min |
| Jan 4, 7:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 38 min |
| Jan 4, 7:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 26 min |
| Jan 4, 7:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 47 min |
| Jan 4, 8:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty | 83 min |
| Jan 4, 8:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington | 33 min |
| Jan 4, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 58 min |
| Jan 4, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 47 min |
| Jan 4, 8:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 55 min |
| Jan 4, 9:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift and 1 more | 44 min |
| Jan 4, 9:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 12 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson and 9 more | 90 min |
| Jan 3, 10:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 11:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo and 6 more | 83 min |
| Jan 4, 2:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 23 more | 114 min |
| Jan 4, 7:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 9 more | 113 min |
| Jan 4, 7:36 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Nassau, Suwannee and 2 more | 114 min |
| Jan 4, 2:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion and 4 more | 94 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.