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Tornado Watch 719
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 10, 2023, 12:58 AM CST for 22 counties in Alabama; 42 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2023, 12:58 AM CST (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2023, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 64 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baker County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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
- 50%
- 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
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 30 min |
| Dec 10, 1:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 38 min |
| Dec 10, 1:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 12 min |
| Dec 10, 1:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 25 min |
| Dec 10, 2:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 37 min |
| Dec 10, 3:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 43 min |
| Dec 10, 4:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 42 min |
| Dec 10, 4:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 50 min |
| Dec 10, 4:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 31 min |
| Dec 10, 6:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 22 min |
| Dec 10, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 8:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Grady, Thomas | 85 min |
| Dec 10, 8:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 51 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 6:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 96 min |
| Dec 9, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 9, 8:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 87 min |
| Dec 9, 8:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:31 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, DeKalb, Etowah, Marshall | 119 min |
| Dec 9, 10:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 11:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 65 min |
| Dec 9, 11:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clarke and 22 more | 88 min |
| Dec 10, 4:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 7 more | 90 min |
| Dec 10, 6:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 88 min |
| Dec 10, 7:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady and 6 more | 62 min |
| Dec 10, 9:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Lowndes, Thomas | 2 hr |
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.