Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 269
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 9, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT for 10 counties in Georgia; 7 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2012, 7:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper | 57 min |
| May 9, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 60 min |
| May 9, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper | 38 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 9, 11:32 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Richmond | 88 min |
| May 9, 12:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 49 more | 2 hr |
| May 9, 4:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Wayne | 96 min |
| May 9, 6:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton and 6 more | 89 min |
| May 9, 7:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2012Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2012Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2012
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.