Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 49
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 1, 2007, 8:27 PM EST for 11 counties in Georgia; 16 counties in North Carolina; 30 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2007, 8:27 PM EST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 10:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 12:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln | 19 min |
| Mar 2, 12:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 12:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 1:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, McDuffie | 56 min |
| Mar 2, 1:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 59 min |
| Mar 2, 1:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 1:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 2:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 82 min |
| Mar 2, 2:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Orangeburg | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 3:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 3:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 3:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 41 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 675 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:39 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill and 100 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 27 more | 94 min |
| Mar 2, 12:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:33 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Berrien, Brooks, Coffee, Cook, Jeff Davis and 2 more | 87 min |
| Mar 2, 3:00 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richmond | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 4:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 17 more | 62 min |
| Mar 2, 6:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Chatham, Glynn, McIntosh | 84 min |
| Mar 1, 7:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 91 min |
| Mar 1, 11:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell and 40 more | 91 min |
| Mar 2, 12:28 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 2:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:37 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck, Durham and 16 more | 83 min |
| Mar 2, 5:10 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:25 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 23 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2007Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2007Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2007Every tornado watch in 2007
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.