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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 549
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 14, 2014, 3:07 PM EDT for 12 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2014, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 9:11 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 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, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Allendale County, SC, 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), 39 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 60 min |
| Oct 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 63 min |
| Oct 14, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 50 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 871 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 9:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Calhoun, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bartow, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 54 more | 83 min |
| Oct 14, 4:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 59 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:27 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:22 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Elbert, Emanuel and 9 more | 83 min |
| Oct 14, 6:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Effingham, Elbert and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 8:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt, Cook and 12 more | 85 min |
| Oct 14, 11:21 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Clinch, Cook, Echols, Lanier, Lowndes and 2 more | 114 min |
| Oct 14, 11:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke and 45 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts and 53 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 7 more | 32 min |
| Oct 14, 6:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more | 91 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.