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Tornado Watch 372

June 1, 200546 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 1, 2005, 1:50 PM EDT for 46 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2005, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 54 counties

Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Screven	47 min
Jun 1, 7:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	44 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 930 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WWUS20 KWNS 011747
SEL2  
SPC WW 011747
GAZ000-SCZ000-CWZ000-020000-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 372
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
150 PM EDT WED JUN 1 2005

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

       SOUTHERN GEORGIA
       SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA
       COASTAL WATERS

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 150 PM UNTIL
800 PM EDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
VALDOSTA GEORGIA TO 45 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH
CAROLINA.  FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

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...MOIST AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS ACROSS WATCH
AREA.  WITH 20KT OF LOW LEVEL SHEAR AND LOW LCLS THUNDERSTORMS
EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS WATCH WITH A FEW SUPERCELLS LIKELY. 
TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23030.


...HALES

323,0834 331,0794 311,0794 303,0834

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 11:54 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 58 more	2 hr
Jun 1, 4:37 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 29 more	83 min
Jun 1, 7:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Emanuel and 8 more	55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.