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Tornado Watch 546

October 14, 201433 counties in Georgia; 22 counties in North Carolina; 38 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 14, 2014, 6:57 AM EDT for 33 counties in Georgia; 22 counties in North Carolina; 38 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 2014, 6:57 AM EDT (10:57 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
0.5 in
Strongest gust expected
65 kt
All 93 counties

Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:58 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
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
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
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 7:10 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCClarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee35 min
Oct 14, 7:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia, Lincoln, McDuffie61 min
Oct 14, 7:53 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPStephens52 min
Oct 14, 8:41 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Oconee, Pickens49 min
Oct 14, 10:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell60 min
Oct 14, 10:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg55 min
Oct 14, 10:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey62 min
Oct 14, 12:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland, Rutherford52 min
Oct 14, 1:28 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPBurke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford47 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2014-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2014-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 9:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee and 29 more2 hr
Oct 13, 11:44 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Calhoun, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga and 32 more6 hr
Oct 14, 3:07 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Bartow, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 54 more83 min
Oct 14, 4:06 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 59 more6 hr
Oct 14, 4:27 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 19 more8 hr
Oct 14, 6:22 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Elbert, Emanuel and 9 more83 min
Oct 14, 7:23 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDade2 hr
Oct 14, 8:35 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt, Cook and 12 more85 min
Oct 14, 11:21 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrooks, Clinch, Cook, Echols, Lanier, Lowndes and 2 more114 min
Oct 14, 11:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 20 more7 hr
Oct 14, 1:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke and 45 more2 hr
Oct 14, 1:59 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts and 53 more11 hr
Oct 14, 2:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 7 more32 min
Oct 14, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more6 hr
Oct 14, 6:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColumbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more91 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.