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Tornado Watch 303
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2023, 9:03 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama; 14 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2023, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry 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, Madison County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill 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 Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Tift | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 9:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Henry | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 13 min |
| Jun 15, 10:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Henry | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 113 min |
| Jun 15, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 11:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes, Thomas | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 4 hr |
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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 83 min |
| Jun 14, 9:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 113 min |
| Jun 15, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dallas and 6 more | 115 min |
| Jun 15, 3:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 83 min |
| Jun 15, 5:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Sumter | 119 min |
| Jun 15, 8:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dale, Henry, Houston | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 11:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 6 more | 83 min |
| Jun 15, 1:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 115 min |
| Jun 14, 10:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Citrus, Dixie, Flagler, Gilchrist, Lake and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Nassau | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more | 87 min |
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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.