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Tornado Watch 84
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2024, 1:34 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2024, 1:34 AM CDT (06:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 97 min |
| Apr 3, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 91 min |
| Apr 3, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 3:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee | 11 min |
| Apr 3, 3:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Worth | 85 min |
| Apr 3, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin | 75 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Randolph and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 92 min |
| Apr 3, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Crisp and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley and 54 more | 97 min |
| Apr 3, 4:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Thomas | 89 min |
| Apr 3, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 14 more | 56 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.