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Tornado Watch 30
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 25, 2023, 3:03 AM CST for Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama; 13 counties in Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2023, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2023, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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
- 30%
- 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
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 4:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva | 72 min |
| Jan 25, 4:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 97 min |
| Jan 25, 4:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 15 min |
| Jan 25, 5:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 29 min |
| Jan 25, 5:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 98 min |
| Jan 25, 5:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 16 min |
| Jan 25, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 90 min |
| Jan 25, 5:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Washington | 33 min |
| Jan 25, 6:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 38 min |
| Jan 25, 6:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon and 2 more | 59 min |
| Jan 25, 7:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson | 29 min |
| Jan 25, 7:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Liberty | 30 min |
| Jan 25, 7:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 63 min |
| Jan 25, 7:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 74 min |
| Jan 25, 8:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 30 min |
| Jan 25, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 64 min |
| Jan 25, 9:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 17 min |
| Jan 25, 9:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 10 min |
| Jan 25, 10:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 61 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 8:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 87 min |
| Jan 24, 9:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 113 min |
| Jan 25, 6:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Franklin, Gulf | 89 min |
| Jan 25, 9:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 84 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.