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Tornado Watch 222
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 1:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 80 counties
Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Norton, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt, City of Covington | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell, Iredell | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 12:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1089 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WWUS20 KWNS 050001 SEL2 SPC WW 050001 NCZ000-TNZ000-VAZ000-WVZ000-050700- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 222 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 800 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN TENNESSEE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA * EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING FROM 800 PM UNTIL 300 AM EDT. * PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE... A COUPLE TORNADOES POSSIBLE SCATTERED LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS WEST VIRGINIA TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOT SPRINGS NORTH CAROLINA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 218...WW 219...WW 220...WW 221... DISCUSSION...CLUSTERS OF SEMI-DISCRETE STORMS/SUPERCELLS EXPECTED TO PERSIST ALONG THE W SLOPES OF THE SRN APPALACHIANS THROUGH LATE EVE...WITH ADDITIONAL STORMS POSSIBLY MOVING/DEVELOPING EWD INTO WRN AND SW VA AS MID-LVL SPEED MAX AND ASSOCIATED UVV FIELD OVERSPREAD MOIST/CONFLUENT LOW--LVL FLOW. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 30030. ...CORFIDI
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 10:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 24 more | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 28 more | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 8:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland and 28 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Carroll and 46 more | 97 min |
| Jun 5, 3:14 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Decatur, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 10:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 16 more | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee and 28 more | 6 hr |
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.