Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 718
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 25, 2010, 3:06 PM EDT for 21 counties in Georgia; 6 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2010, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Screven County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 25 min |
| Oct 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 53 min |
| Oct 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven | 53 min |
| Oct 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 46 min |
| Oct 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 65 min |
| Oct 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 61 min |
| Oct 25, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 63 min |
| Oct 25, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 28 min |
| Oct 25, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 21 min |
| Oct 25, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 56 min |
| Oct 25, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 55 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Haralson and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 30 more | 113 min |
| Oct 25, 5:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 85 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 7:34 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 7:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 71 more | 116 min |
| Oct 25, 8:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Early, Miller, Seminole | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 1:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Crisp, Dodge and 18 more | 31 min |
| Oct 25, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 9 more | 63 min |
| Oct 25, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Crisp and 21 more | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 10:44 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and 6 more | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.