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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 13
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 16, 2025, 7:33 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2025, 7:33 AM EST (12:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2025, 12:19 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Baker County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley 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, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 7:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Hampton | 56 min |
| Feb 16, 7:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 8:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Jeff Davis and 1 more | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins and 4 more | 61 min |
| Feb 16, 8:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Feb 16, 10:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Ware | 32 min |
| Feb 16, 10:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 28 min |
| Feb 16, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 14 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 10:11 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:51 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 114 min |
| Feb 16, 3:42 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison and 4 more | 117 min |
| Feb 15, 9:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 53 min |
| Feb 16, 2:02 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 73 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 80 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:52 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:32 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 52 more | 118 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.