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Tornado Watch 868

August 26, 200859 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in North Carolina; 32 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 26, 2008, 6:52 PM EDT for 59 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in North Carolina; 32 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 2008, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2008, 6:36 AM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
0.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 104 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, White County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Polk County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly 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, Darlington 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, Marlboro 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

What SPC expected

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

Two or more tornadoes
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
20%
Ten or more severe wind reports
10%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
5%
Ten or more severe hail reports
5%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
20%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 6:55 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester50 min
Aug 26, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCWilkes15 min
Aug 26, 7:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPElbert27 min
Aug 26, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry, Saluda53 min
Aug 26, 7:07 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson29 min
Aug 26, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Barnwell, Lexington, Orangeburg48 min
Aug 26, 7:31 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCHancock, Taliaferro, Warren44 min
Aug 26, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Richland49 min
Aug 26, 7:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAECalhoun, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland2 hr
Aug 26, 8:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAEChesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster3 hr
Aug 26, 8:36 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCJasper, Morgan, Putnam39 min
Aug 26, 8:52 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCWilkes8 min
Aug 27, 12:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg4 hr
Aug 27, 4:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg3 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 348 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
373 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
13.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 12:36 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 57 more84 min
Aug 26, 2:36 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Bibb, Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay and 39 more7 hr
Aug 26, 5:45 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dooly and 16 more90 min
Aug 26, 8:16 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb and 96 more89 min
Aug 26, 9:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks and 72 more23 min
Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien and 101 more9 hr
Aug 26, 2:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien and 96 more58 min
Aug 26, 4:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Baldwin, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 89 more65 min
Aug 26, 6:14 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 29 more61 min
Aug 26, 11:18 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnson, Bladen, Columbus, Hoke, Mecklenburg, Richmond and 4 more57 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.