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Tornado Watch 214

May 8, 20245 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 8, 2024, 10:11 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2024, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2024, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 61 counties

DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Banks County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Gilmer, Murray	64 min
May 8, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	62 min
May 8, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Madison and 1 more	60 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	44 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	22 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	44 min
May 8, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	64 min
May 8, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	41 min
May 8, 10:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	51 min
May 8, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	48 min
May 8, 10:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	3 hr
May 8, 10:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Limestone, Madison	3 hr
May 8, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Towns, Union	49 min
May 8, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, McDowell	49 min
May 8, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union	47 min
May 8, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	HUN	Jackson, Madison	43 min
May 8, 11:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Murray	6 hr
May 8, 11:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	8 hr
May 8, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	46 min
May 8, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon, Murray	50 min
May 8, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	HUN	DeKalb	20 min
May 8, 11:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	FFC	Chattooga, Walker	48 min
May 8, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin, Union, White	43 min
May 8, 11:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	40 min
May 8, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	57 min
May 8, 11:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Gilmer, Murray	8 hr
May 8, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens	38 min
May 8, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens	68 min
May 9, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall	40 min
May 9, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Walker, Whitfield	39 min
May 9, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	32 min
May 9, 12:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	3 hr
May 9, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Walker	50 min
May 9, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Pickens and 1 more	61 min
May 9, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	32 min
May 9, 12:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	25 min
May 9, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker	49 min
May 9, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	40 min
May 9, 1:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Laurens	13 min
May 9, 1:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens and 1 more	7 hr
May 9, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson	52 min
May 9, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	35 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	2 hr
May 8, 10:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	DeKalb, Jackson, Madison	85 min
May 9, 2:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 7 more	2 hr
May 9, 3:02 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 23 more	7 hr
May 9, 4:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson, Madison, Marshall	2 hr
May 9, 7:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more	117 min
May 9, 8:51 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 22 more	6 hr
May 9, 9:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Dale, Elmore, Henry and 5 more	96 min
May 9, 12:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dale, Henry, Houston	7 hr
May 9, 4:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chilton, Coosa and 20 more	96 min
May 9, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 25 more	6 hr
May 8, 9:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens and 1 more	89 min
May 9, 1:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke and 24 more	119 min
May 9, 4:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 75 more	9 hr
May 9, 11:12 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more	5 hr
May 9, 12:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 35 more	95 min
May 9, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn, Ware	54 min
May 8, 7:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham and 59 more	61 min
May 8, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 53 more	7 hr
May 8, 11:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 42 more	114 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.