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Tornado Watch 19
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 12, 2023, 11:03 AM EST for 17 counties in Georgia; Cherokee County, North Carolina; 8 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2023, 11:03 AM EST (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2023, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Bradley County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 11:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 39 min |
| Jan 12, 11:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 31 min |
| Jan 12, 11:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Polk | 41 min |
| Jan 12, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 28 min |
| Jan 12, 1:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 32 min |
| Jan 12, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding, Polk | 29 min |
| Jan 12, 3:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth and 2 more | 44 min |
| Jan 12, 4:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 31 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 10:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 4 more | 62 min |
| Jan 12, 11:52 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta and 17 more | 53 min |
| Jan 12, 1:06 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 74 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Early, Miller and 6 more | 116 min |
| Jan 12, 3:01 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Heard, Henry, Meriwether and 3 more | 119 min |
| Jan 12, 3:36 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 12, 4:16 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, Stephens | 59 min |
| Jan 12, 4:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 4:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Lee, Quitman, Randolph and 5 more | 92 min |
| Jan 12, 6:12 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Calhoun, Colquitt, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly and 15 more | 93 min |
| Jan 12, 5:54 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba and 28 more | 96 min |
| Jan 12, 1:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:59 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 7 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb, Franklin and 16 more | 65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.