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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 402

May 26, 20064 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2006, 2:12 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2006, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2006, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 130 counties

Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson 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, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, Brunswick County, VA, Charles City County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Richland, Sumter50 min
May 26, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow37 min
May 26, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico36 min
May 26, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven47 min
May 26, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDarlington, Florence30 min
May 26, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon35 min
May 26, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort41 min
May 26, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMWilliamsburg62 min
May 26, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence60 min
May 26, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion53 min
May 26, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow47 min
May 26, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico24 min
May 26, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon23 min
May 26, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort49 min
May 26, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones43 min
May 26, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie, Chowan37 min
May 26, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry64 min
May 26, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus27 min
May 26, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson46 min
May 26, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen63 min
May 26, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPerquimans30 min
May 26, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMWilliamsburg60 min
May 26, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt44 min
May 26, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene, Lenoir50 min
May 26, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort47 min
May 26, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus65 min
May 26, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson35 min
May 26, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington48 min
May 26, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPasquotank31 min
May 26, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven23 min
May 26, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt31 min
May 26, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry27 min
May 26, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender64 min
May 26, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven34 min
May 26, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell28 min
May 26, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones, Lenoir26 min
May 26, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry26 min
May 26, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson38 min
May 26, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin, Onslow47 min
May 26, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort46 min
May 26, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown28 min
May 26, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven48 min
May 26, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones39 min
May 26, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico30 min
May 26, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRichmond37 min
May 26, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry50 min
May 26, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke33 min
May 26, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort45 min
May 26, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland36 min
May 26, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Richland39 min
May 26, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland33 min
May 26, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPrince George, Surry, Sussex50 min
May 26, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake26 min
May 26, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin18 min
May 26, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarlboro47 min
May 26, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash34 min
May 26, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Franklin, Granville29 min
May 26, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston36 min
May 26, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson28 min
May 26, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion26 min
May 26, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland25 min
May 26, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe23 min
May 26, 8:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare22 min
May 26, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax, Warren34 min
May 26, 8:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin29 min
May 26, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Wake35 min
May 26, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland20 min
May 26, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson49 min
May 26, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash47 min
May 26, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen55 min
May 26, 8:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESumter47 min
May 26, 9:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax28 min
May 26, 9:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe, Wilson34 min
May 26, 9:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon49 min
May 26, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMWilliamsburg58 min
May 26, 10:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley27 min
May 26, 10:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry52 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1303 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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 26, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCElbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens7 hr
May 26, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 37 more6 hr
May 26, 7:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 53 more84 min
May 26, 2:11 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry94 min
May 26, 11:42 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Madison, Mitchell and 3 more2 hr
May 26, 1:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 62 more93 min
May 25, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBuchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington and 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.