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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 146

May 2, 200451 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2004, 1:10 PM EDT for 51 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 2004, 1:10 PM EDT (17:10 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 71 counties

Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Union County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens44 min
May 2, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis31 min
May 2, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichmond30 min
May 2, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken42 min
May 2, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken32 min
May 2, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBulloch, Candler, Jenkins30 min
May 2, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington45 min
May 2, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven49 min
May 2, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling48 min
May 2, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBulloch46 min
May 2, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSAllendale26 min
May 2, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis51 min
May 2, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland42 min
May 2, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw40 min
May 2, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBacon22 min
May 2, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield34 min
May 2, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw26 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 798 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
798 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 2:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 14 more113 min
May 2, 11:32 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCamden, Glynn, McIntosh2 hr
May 2, 12:33 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia and 23 more117 min
May 2, 3:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCScreven2 hr
May 2, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long5 hr
May 2, 7:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerkeley, Charleston, Dillon, Georgetown, Horry, Marion and 1 more67 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.