Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2013
Tornado Watch 130
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT for 37 counties in North Carolina; 22 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 59 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Fairfield, Lexington, McCormick and 2 more | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 1 more | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 3:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange, Person | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Fairfield, Lexington, McCormick and 3 more | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 14 min |
| Apr 19, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Randolph | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Orange | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Moore, Randolph | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Orangeburg and 2 more | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Lee, Moore and 3 more | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Scotland | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 67 min |
| Apr 19, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Wake, Warren | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Granville, Lee, Orange, Vance and 1 more | 15 min |
| Apr 19, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 67 min |
| Apr 19, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Scotland | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marion | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Marion | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne | 63 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caswell and 29 more | 115 min |
| Apr 19, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 58 more | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 29 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Greene, Halifax and 11 more | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allendale, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester | 113 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.