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Tornado Watch 50
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 16, 2025, 1:18 AM CDT for 10 counties in Florida; 78 counties in Georgia; Aiken County, Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:18 AM CDT (06:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 91 counties
Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
47 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 81 min |
| Mar 16, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Schley, Stewart, Taylor, Webster | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Macon and 7 more | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Washington | 81 min |
| Mar 16, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Dooly, Hancock, Houston, Pulaski and 4 more | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 2:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 15 min |
| Mar 16, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Early, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Dodge, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson and 7 more | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 4:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson and 5 more | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 3 more | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richmond | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 55 min |
| Mar 16, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Richmond | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 5:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 2 more | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery and 2 more | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 6:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor and 1 more | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland and 1 more | 65 min |
| Mar 16, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 6:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens, Treutlen | 13 min |
| Mar 16, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 6:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 14 min |
| Mar 16, 7:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Wayne | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 14 min |
| Mar 16, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Coffee, Ware | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 8:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Ware | 12 min |
| Mar 16, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 47 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 118 min |
| Mar 15, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and 1 more | 58 min |
| Mar 16, 3:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 6:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist and 5 more | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 7:04 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 17 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval and 8 more | 89 min |
| Mar 16, 10:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 9 more | 96 min |
| Mar 16, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Duval and 10 more | 84 min |
| Mar 15, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Muscogee, Quitman and 2 more | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Screven, Tattnall | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 5:12 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Screven | 95 min |
| Mar 16, 8:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion and 2 more | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 12:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 92 min |
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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.