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Tornado Watch 236
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 13, 2024, 10:53 AM CDT for 17 counties in Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2024, 10:53 AM CDT (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Liberty, Wakulla | 48 min |
| May 13, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 26 min |
| May 13, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more | 63 min |
| May 13, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 35 min |
| May 13, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf | 62 min |
| May 13, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lafayette | 12 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 56 min |
| May 13, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 6:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 114 min |
| May 13, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 90 min |
| May 13, 10:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 62 min |
| May 13, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 91 min |
| May 13, 3:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, DeSoto, Gilchrist, Hardee, Highlands and 11 more | 86 min |
| May 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Dixie, Levy | 57 min |
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.