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Tornado Watch 298

June 14, 20235 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 25 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 14, 2023, 5:41 PM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 25 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2023, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 47 counties

Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	93 min
Jun 14, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Early and 5 more	88 min
Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry	46 min
Jun 14, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Geneva, Houston	57 min
Jun 14, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	84 min
Jun 14, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Dale, Henry	71 min
Jun 14, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	83 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	33 min
Jun 14, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TAE	Houston	47 min
Jun 14, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 2 more	59 min
Jun 14, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	41 min
Jun 14, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	52 min
Jun 14, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes and 2 more	61 min
Jun 14, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Wakulla	64 min
Jun 14, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	58 min
Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	74 min
Jun 14, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Geneva	84 min
Jun 14, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	56 min
Jun 14, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	54 min
Jun 14, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	37 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	65 min
Jun 14, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Walton, Washington	43 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa and 12 more	113 min
Jun 14, 5:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mobile, Washington	85 min
Jun 14, 9:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Chambers and 27 more	2 hr
Jun 14, 10:09 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Chambers and 32 more	7 hr
Jun 14, 10:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	2 hr
Jun 14, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 26 more	86 min
Jun 14, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Elmore, Greene and 8 more	85 min
Jun 14, 3:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 3 more	67 min
Jun 14, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 21 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Dale, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon and 1 more	62 min
Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Escambia, Washington	2 hr
Jun 14, 2:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nassau	113 min
Jun 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Nassau	6 hr
Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more	89 min
Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Clayton and 28 more	116 min
Jun 14, 2:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Dougherty and 6 more	55 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.