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Tornado Watch 174
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 2006, 1:30 PM EDT for 13 counties in Florida; 33 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2006, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Marion County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Telfair | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wheeler | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 65 min |
| Apr 8, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 2:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 22 min |
| Apr 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Toombs | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans, Tattnall | 66 min |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 63 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham, Effingham | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia | 12 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 9:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 113 min |
| Apr 8, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Nassau, Union | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more | 113 min |
| Apr 8, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 16 more | 91 min |
| Apr 7, 9:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee and 25 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 89 min |
| Apr 8, 3:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:45 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham and 8 more | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 7:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Glascock and 13 more | 93 min |
| Apr 8, 8:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marlboro | 2 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2006Tornado Watches in Florida, 2006Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2006Every 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.