Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 51
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 2, 2007, 12:28 AM EST for 37 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2007, 12:28 AM EST (05:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 8:01 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 2:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 3:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 4:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 19 min |
| Mar 2, 4:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 4:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 4:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 19 min |
| Mar 2, 5:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 5:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 5:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 24 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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, 7:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 91 min |
| Mar 1, 8:27 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell and 40 more | 91 min |
| 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, 4:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Chatham, Columbus and 26 more | 62 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 |
| Mar 1, 8:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCormick | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston and 5 more | 94 min |
| Mar 2, 12:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:00 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and 5 more | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 6:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston | 84 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.