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Tornado Watch 723
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 29, 2024, 12:54 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Florida; 97 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2024, 12:54 AM CST (06:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2024, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 117 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 1:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 85 min |
| Dec 29, 1:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 98 min |
| Dec 29, 1:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 89 min |
| Dec 29, 2:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, Troup | 63 min |
| Dec 29, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 74 min |
| Dec 29, 2:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 29 min |
| Dec 29, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Taylor and 1 more | 65 min |
| Dec 29, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 97 min |
| Dec 29, 3:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford, Fayette, Henry and 8 more | 58 min |
| Dec 29, 3:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Spalding | 16 min |
| Dec 29, 3:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 26 min |
| Dec 29, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Henry, Houston and 13 more | 67 min |
| Dec 29, 4:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 27 min |
| Dec 29, 4:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 39 min |
| Dec 29, 4:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Dodge, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 10 more | 54 min |
| Dec 29, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 24 min |
| Dec 29, 5:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 50 min |
| Dec 29, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson | 45 min |
| Dec 29, 5:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gulf | 26 min |
| Dec 29, 5:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Washington | 66 min |
| Dec 29, 6:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 54 min |
| Dec 29, 6:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty | 43 min |
| Dec 29, 6:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty | 43 min |
| Dec 29, 6:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 78 min |
| Dec 29, 7:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla | 39 min |
| Dec 29, 7:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 67 min |
| Dec 29, 7:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 36 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 28, 6:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa and 21 more | 91 min |
| Dec 28, 7:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 66 min |
| Dec 28, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 9:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman and 21 more | 92 min |
| Dec 28, 10:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Escambia and 3 more | 97 min |
| Dec 28, 11:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 27 more | 116 min |
| Dec 29, 1:21 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell and 1 more | 54 min |
| Dec 29, 3:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 84 min |
| Dec 29, 6:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Jefferson and 7 more | 59 min |
| Dec 29, 7:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Levy, Marion and 2 more | 88 min |
| Dec 29, 4:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke and 32 more | 53 min |
| Dec 29, 5:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 7:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 1 more | 88 min |
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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.