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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 302

May 13, 200251 counties in Georgia; Scotland County, North Carolina; 22 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT for 51 counties in Georgia; Scotland County, North Carolina; 22 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Scotland County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens14 min
May 13, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOglethorpe, Wilkes28 min
May 13, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Newberry, Saluda45 min
May 13, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Taliaferro29 min
May 13, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood10 min
May 13, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELincoln38 min
May 13, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor34 min
May 13, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon35 min
May 13, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia, McDuffie, Richmond54 min
May 13, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaliaferro, Warren24 min
May 13, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon29 min
May 13, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELancaster44 min
May 13, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, York36 min
May 13, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw41 min
May 13, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia, Richmond26 min
May 13, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee34 min
May 13, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDarlington, Florence53 min
May 13, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke, Moore, Scotland34 min
May 13, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Johnson26 min
May 13, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSJenkins23 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 397 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
397 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 48 more5 hr
May 13, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Montgomery and 3 more5 hr
May 13, 10:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 27 more5 hr
May 13, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 39 more5 hr
May 13, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Caswell and 39 more6 hr

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.