Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 91
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 27, 2023, 7:29 AM EDT for 25 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2023, 7:29 AM EDT (11:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 25 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:30 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 8:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 8:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 8 min |
| Mar 27, 9:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 5 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 45 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb and 17 more | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 11:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Harris and 17 more | 114 min |
| Mar 26, 11:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Columbia, Greene, Hancock, Lincoln, McDuffie and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Muscogee | 116 min |
| Mar 27, 6:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Harris, Heard, Jasper and 9 more | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 9:55 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ben Hill, Bleckley, Calhoun, Candler, Chattahoochee, Clay and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 11:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 65 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bryan and 45 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 31 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.