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Tornado Watch 24
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 12, 2024, 9:01 AM CST for 9 counties in Florida; 9 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2024, 9:01 AM CST (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2024, 1:23 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
Counties Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Baker County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 81 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.