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Tornado Watch 68
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 7, 2014, 2:02 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2014, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2014, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Hamilton County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, 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, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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
- 40%
- 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
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 56 min |
| Apr 7, 2:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Brantley, Clinch, Pierce, Ware | 57 min |
| Apr 7, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Pierce, Wayne | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 56 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
072 WWUS20 KWNS 071805 SEL8 SPC WW 071805 FLZ000-GAZ000-NCZ000-SCZ000-CWZ000-080100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 68 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 205 PM EDT MON APR 7 2014 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA EASTERN GEORGIA SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL WATERS * EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 205 PM UNTIL 900 PM EDT. * PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE... SEVERAL TORNADOES POSSIBLE SEVERAL DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 55 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA TO 45 MILES SOUTH OF WAYCROSS GEORGIA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8). 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 67... DISCUSSION...LONG-LIVED QLCS OVER CNTRL GA WILL CONTINUE EWD ACROSS SRN PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO EVENING. FARTHER TO THE NORTH...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A COMPOSITE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY-WEDGE FRONT OVER THE EASTERN CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON. VERTICAL SHEAR WILL REMAIN STRONG AND SUPPORTIVE OF EMBEDDED SUPERCELL AND BOWING STRUCTURES WITH A RISK FOR A FEW TORNADOES AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035. ...MEAD
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 1:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 2:16 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 15 more | 116 min |
| Apr 7, 1:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Duval and 10 more | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 3:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 9 more | 85 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.