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Tornado Watch 12
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 16, 2025, 2:42 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2025, 2:42 AM CST (08:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 46 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, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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
- 50%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 87 min |
| Feb 16, 3:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 77 min |
| Feb 16, 3:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 94 min |
| Feb 16, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 88 min |
| Feb 16, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 95 min |
| Feb 16, 4:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 86 min |
| Feb 16, 4:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Miller and 1 more | 94 min |
| Feb 16, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 94 min |
| Feb 16, 5:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 88 min |
| Feb 16, 5:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Tift, Turner, Worth | 88 min |
| Feb 16, 5:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty, Walton, Washington | 95 min |
| Feb 16, 5:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin | 86 min |
| Feb 16, 6:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 88 min |
| Feb 16, 6:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 83 min |
| Feb 16, 6:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Tift | 84 min |
| Feb 16, 6:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 97 min |
| Feb 16, 6:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 87 min |
| Feb 16, 6:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 85 min |
| Feb 16, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 84 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 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, 8:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Cullman and 26 more | 53 min |
| Feb 15, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 56 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Cullman, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:51 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 41 more | 114 min |
| Feb 16, 3:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:48 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison and 4 more | 117 min |
| Feb 16, 1:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 73 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:32 AM CST | 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.