Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 141
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 2016, 4:04 PM EDT for 73 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2016, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2016, 11:52 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 81 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks 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, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth 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), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 26 min |
| May 3, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Colleton, Hampton | 40 min |
| May 3, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 27 min |
| May 3, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 37 min |
| May 3, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 31 min |
| May 3, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 38 min |
| May 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Tift | 13 min |
| May 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 13 min |
| May 3, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 15 min |
| May 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 45 min |
| May 3, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin | 10 min |
| May 3, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 40 min |
| May 3, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 35 min |
| May 3, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier | 18 min |
| May 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler | 50 min |
| May 3, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 30 min |
| May 3, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 55 min |
| May 3, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Worth | 32 min |
| May 3, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 39 min |
| May 3, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 51 min |
| May 3, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 28 min |
| May 3, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 61 min |
| May 3, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 49 min |
| May 3, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 59 min |
| May 3, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 40 min |
| May 3, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller | 45 min |
| May 3, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 59 min |
| May 3, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty | 54 min |
| May 3, 11:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Turner, Worth | 21 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke | 8 hr |
| May 3, 3:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 67 more | 83 min |
| May 3, 6:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 57 more | 96 min |
| May 3, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield and 8 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.