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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 612

July 22, 200035 counties in North Carolina; 35 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2000, 1:15 PM EDT for 35 counties in North Carolina; 35 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2000, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 70 counties

Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry	46 min
Jul 22, 1:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Fairfield	43 min
Jul 22, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lancaster	40 min
Jul 22, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	47 min
Jul 22, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	41 min
Jul 22, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	23 min
Jul 22, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	30 min
Jul 22, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	44 min
Jul 22, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington	50 min
Jul 22, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	32 min
Jul 22, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	44 min
Jul 22, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	42 min
Jul 22, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	52 min
Jul 22, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence	40 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	32 min
Jul 22, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	44 min
Jul 22, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	44 min
Jul 22, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry, Marion	26 min
Jul 22, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	46 min
Jul 22, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon	28 min
Jul 22, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	48 min
Jul 22, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	47 min
Jul 22, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	25 min
Jul 22, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	36 min
Jul 22, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	24 min
Jul 22, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	30 min
Jul 22, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Dorchester	32 min
Jul 22, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	40 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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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.