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Tornado Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 11, 2014, 1:51 PM EST for 26 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2014, 1:51 PM EST (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2014, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne 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), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 39 min |
| Jan 11, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 38 min |
| Jan 11, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Echols | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 3:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 41 min |
| Jan 11, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | 21 min |
| Jan 11, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 20 min |
| Jan 11, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton, Ware | 58 min |
| Jan 11, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Dorchester, Jasper | 50 min |
| Jan 11, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 38 min |
| Jan 11, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 64 min |
| Jan 11, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper | 58 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
487 WWUS20 KWNS 111850 SEL5 SPC WW 111850 GAZ000-SCZ000-CWZ000-120100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 5 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 150 PM EST SAT JAN 11 2014 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL WATERS * EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 150 PM UNTIL 800 PM EST. * PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE... SEVERAL TORNADOES POSSIBLE SEVERAL DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA TO 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF WAYCROSS GEORGIA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5). 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 1...WW 2...WW 3...WW 4... DISCUSSION...A PRE-FRONTAL BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EWD THROUGH THE AFTERNOON/EVENING...IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG MIDLEVEL TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT. A FEW DAMAGING GUSTS SHOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE STRONGER STORMS EMBEDDED IN THE BAND. OTHERWISE...A TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH CIRCULATIONS IN THE BAND...OR WITH MORE DISCRETE SUPERCELLS AHEAD OF THE LINE. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24045. ...THOMPSON
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 8:03 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun and 53 more | 27 min |
| Jan 11, 8:07 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 63 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hart | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Lincoln, McDuffie | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Richmond | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:17 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bryan and 32 more | 58 min |
| Jan 11, 1:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 23 more | 97 min |
| Jan 11, 2:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richmond | 56 min |
| Jan 11, 3:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham and 8 more | 55 min |
| Jan 11, 11:12 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Kershaw, Lancaster and 6 more | 63 min |
| Jan 11, 2:13 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg | 5 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, Horry | 53 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.