Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 138
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 3, 2010, 3:08 PM EDT for 34 counties in Georgia; 19 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2010, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2010, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren | 48 min |
| May 3, 3:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 43 min |
| May 3, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren | 40 min |
| May 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 44 min |
| May 3, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski, Telfair, Wilcox | 53 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -167 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:33 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton and 36 more | 3 hr |
| May 3, 5:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clay and 38 more | 2 hr |
| May 3, 6:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 22 more | 64 min |
| May 3, 10:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield, Florence, Kershaw and 6 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2010Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2010Every tornado watch in 2010
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.