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Tornado Watch 85
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2024, 5:51 AM EDT for 16 counties in Florida; 34 counties in Georgia; Beaufort County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2024, 5:51 AM EDT (09:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2024, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Baker County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 83 min |
| Apr 3, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 6:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Worth | 85 min |
| Apr 3, 6:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 17 min |
| Apr 3, 6:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin | 75 min |
| Apr 3, 6:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 7:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Coffee | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 7:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 8 min |
| Apr 3, 7:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Ware | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 8:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware, Wayne | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 9:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 10:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee and 1 more | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 10:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Duval, Nassau | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Putnam and 2 more | 41 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:13 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 92 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 6 more | 89 min |
| Apr 3, 8:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette and 4 more | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 10:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 12 more | 85 min |
| Apr 3, 10:43 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Lake, Levy, Marion and 7 more | 88 min |
| Apr 3, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Hillsborough, Manatee, Orange, Osceola, Polk and 2 more | 83 min |
| Apr 2, 9:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Heard, Troup | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Heard, Troup | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Crisp and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:34 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley and 54 more | 97 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.