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Tornado Watch 82

April 2, 202453 counties in Alabama; 55 counties in Georgia; 7 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 6:57 PM CDT for 53 counties in Alabama; 55 counties in Georgia; 7 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2024, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2024, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 55 kt

All 115 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dade County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Clarke County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Newton County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Dallas, Perry	43 min
Apr 2, 10:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton, Dallas, Perry	18 min
Apr 2, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	38 min
Apr 2, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	28 min
Apr 2, 10:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Rockdale	20 min
Apr 2, 11:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FFC	Newton, Rockdale, Walton	26 min
Apr 2, 11:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa	37 min
Apr 2, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Walton	18 min
Apr 2, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and 1 more	39 min
Apr 2, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe	49 min
Apr 2, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	48 min
Apr 3, 12:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 12:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Heard and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	37 min
Apr 3, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Newton, Walton	47 min
Apr 3, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	42 min
Apr 3, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Marion and 3 more	40 min
Apr 3, 2:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	44 min
Apr 3, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Peach and 3 more	50 min
Apr 3, 2:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilkes	29 min
Apr 3, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	34 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 2:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Limestone	116 min
Apr 2, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 1 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 5:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 29 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 12:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington and 26 more	2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2024 Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2024 Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2024 Every tornado watch in 2024

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.