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Tornado Watch 12

January 2, 200623 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 2006, 6:58 PM EST for 23 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 2, 2006, 6:58 PM EST (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 11:30 PM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Hampton County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 7:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington	45 min
Jan 2, 7:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	32 min
Jan 2, 7:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	46 min
Jan 2, 7:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	32 min
Jan 2, 8:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	30 min
Jan 2, 8:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	43 min
Jan 2, 8:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson	41 min
Jan 2, 8:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	35 min
Jan 2, 8:29 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	46 min
Jan 2, 8:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	47 min
Jan 2, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	50 min
Jan 2, 9:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	27 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 9:26 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 13 more	2 hr
Jan 2, 7:45 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun and 20 more	30 min
Jan 2, 8:10 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	5 hr
Jan 2, 10:47 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Douglas and 9 more	88 min
Jan 2, 11:43 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton and 17 more	92 min
Jan 2, 1:23 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 20 more	7 hr
Jan 2, 4:20 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartow, Carroll, Chattooga, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta and 20 more	85 min
Jan 2, 4:47 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 53 more	5 hr
Jan 2, 6:16 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson and 11 more	89 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2006 Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2006 Every tornado watch in 2006

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.