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Tornado Watch 32

February 14, 2000Columbia County, Richmond County, Screven County, Georgia; 17 counties in North Carolina; 30 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 14, 2000, 1:45 PM EST for Columbia County, Richmond County, Screven County, Georgia; 17 counties in North Carolina; 30 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 14, 2000, 1:45 PM EST (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Feb 14, 2000, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 50 counties

Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Moore County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wake County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 14, 5:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston, Dorchester	64 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

138 
WWUS9 KMKC 141809
SEL2  

SEL2  
MKC WW 141809
NCZ000-SCZ000-CWZ000-150000-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 32
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
109 PM EST MON FEB 14 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA                     
   SOUTH CAROLINA                     
   COASTAL WATERS                     

EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 145 PM UNTIL 700
PM EST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES EITHER SIDE OF
A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF AUGUSTA GEORGIA TO 50 MILES
NORTH OF WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.


DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP RAPIDLY DURING THE NEXT
HOUR AS STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET MOVES TOWARD THE AREA. ALTHOUGH LOW
LEVEL FLOW IS SWLY...SUBSTANTIAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL SUPPORT
SUPERCELL STORMS.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25035.


...VESCIO

340,0772 315,0810 334,0821 355,0783

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 9:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chattooga, Floyd, Walker	5 hr
Feb 13, 11:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Brooks and 62 more	6 hr
Feb 14, 3:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Bryan and 27 more	6 hr
Feb 14, 5:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 16 more	5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2000 Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2000 Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2000 Every tornado watch in 2000

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.