Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 134
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2023, 12:42 PM EDT for 60 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2023, 12:42 PM EDT (16:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 60 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Worth | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 38 min |
| Apr 13, 2:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 38 min |
| Apr 13, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge | 20 min |
| Apr 13, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 27 min |
| Apr 13, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 34 min |
| Apr 13, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 29 min |
| Apr 13, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Apr 13, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Jeff Davis | 21 min |
| Apr 13, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Toombs | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 39 min |
| Apr 13, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 35 min |
| Apr 13, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 49 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 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 6:10 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Orange, Putnam and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brevard, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Lake, Marion and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Indian River, Martin, Palm Beach, Saint Lucie | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:00 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Berrien, Calhoun, Clinch, Coffee and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Ben Hill, Chattahoochee, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Candler, Chattahoochee and 31 more | 115 min |
| Apr 13, 6:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bibb, Bleckley, Candler, Chattahoochee, Crawford and 23 more | 89 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.