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Tornado Watch 292

June 10, 20135 counties in Georgia; 53 counties in North Carolina; 35 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 10, 2013, 1:18 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia; 53 counties in North Carolina; 35 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2013, 1:18 PM EDT (17:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2013, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 93 counties

Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken 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, Dillon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 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
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
20%
Ten or more severe wind reports
80%
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
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:25 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Laurens, Spartanburg50 min
Jun 10, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax30 min
Jun 10, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington, Richland44 min
Jun 10, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Gaston66 min
Jun 10, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Mecklenburg, Union56 min
Jun 10, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Lee, Orangeburg and 2 more52 min
Jun 10, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Rowan57 min
Jun 10, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter39 min
Jun 10, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly66 min
Jun 10, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Robeson67 min
Jun 10, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford49 min
Jun 10, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon, Orangeburg64 min
Jun 10, 4:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford3 hr
Jun 10, 4:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHRandolph3 hr
Jun 10, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Chatham, Guilford, Randolph54 min
Jun 10, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Robeson67 min
Jun 10, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus65 min
Jun 10, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett, Johnston, Wake44 min
Jun 10, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin47 min
Jun 10, 6:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHJohnston, Wake3 hr
Jun 10, 6:04 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin11 min
Jun 10, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Warren31 min
Jun 10, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax, Warren37 min
Jun 10, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter41 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2013-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 855 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2013-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
855 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 11:31 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCElbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, Madison, Oglethorpe and 1 more119 min
Jun 10, 7:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty85 min
Jun 10, 12:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGates, Hertford, Northampton, Warren2 hr
Jun 10, 2:02 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlleghany, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck and 10 more10 hr
Jun 10, 4:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 20 more87 min
Jun 10, 4:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGates97 min
Jun 10, 5:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Brunswick, Chowan, Columbus, Craven and 14 more58 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGraham93 min
Jun 10, 6:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton86 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.