Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2014
Tornado Watch 6
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 11, 2014, 2:13 PM EST for 19 counties in North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2014, 2:13 PM EST (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2014, 7:01 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 22 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 66 min |
| Jan 11, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 61 min |
| Jan 11, 3:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Pender, Robeson | 66 min |
| Jan 11, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 11, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir and 6 more | 65 min |
| Jan 11, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare, Tyrrell, Washington | 29 min |
| Jan 11, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 56 min |
| Jan 11, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus | 65 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
004 WWUS20 KWNS 111913 SEL6 SPC WW 111913 NCZ000-SCZ000-CWZ000-120100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 6 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 215 PM EST SAT JAN 11 2014 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL WATERS * EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 215 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 SOUTHWEST OF MYRTLE BEACH SOUTH CAROLINA TO 45 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ELIZABETH CITY NORTH CAROLINA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6). 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...WW 5... DISCUSSION...SEVERAL BANDS OF CONVECTION WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF ERN NC/NE SC THROUGH THE AFTERNOON/EVENING. VERY STRONG LOW-LEVEL WINDS/SHEAR AND SUBSTANTIAL SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY WILL SUPPORT A CONTINUED RISK FOR A FEW TORNADOES WITH CIRCULATIONS EMBEDDED IN THE LINE SEGMENTS...OR WITH WARM SECTOR SUPERCELLS...AS WELL AS DAMAGING WINDS. 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, 9:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, Henderson, Polk | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Polk and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:12 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham and 22 more | 63 min |
| Jan 11, 11:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chatham, Columbus and 34 more | 56 min |
| Jan 11, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Gates and 6 more | 61 min |
| Jan 11, 4:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Hyde and 5 more | 53 min |
| Jan 11, 12:17 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allendale, Hampton | 58 min |
| Jan 11, 1:51 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 11, 3:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton and 1 more | 55 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.