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Tornado Watch 220

May 9, 2024Dale County, Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; Duval County, Nassau County, Florida; 40 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 9, 2024, 12:47 PM CDT for Dale County, Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; Duval County, Nassau County, Florida; 40 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2024, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 45 counties

Dale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Duval County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Worth County, GA

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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Turner	40 min
May 9, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Coffee, Jeff Davis	32 min
May 9, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	48 min
May 9, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Jeff Davis, Wayne	35 min
May 9, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	47 min
May 9, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	70 min
May 9, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	29 min
May 9, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Pierce	33 min
May 9, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAX	Bacon, Coffee, Pierce, Ware	25 min
May 9, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon, Pierce	23 min
May 9, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	37 min
May 9, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware, Wayne	27 min
May 9, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne	25 min
May 9, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Pierce, Wayne	66 min
May 9, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	26 min
May 9, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn, Wayne	30 min
May 9, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Clinch, Ware	28 min
May 9, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Echols	28 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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 10:11 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	DeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall	5 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, 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 9, 12:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nassau	95 min
May 9, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton and 5 more	54 min
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

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.