Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 336
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2016, 1:53 PM EDT for 67 counties in Georgia; 29 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2016, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 6:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 96 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry 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 Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Lexington, Saluda | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam, Taliaferro | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Peach, Schley, Taylor | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 22 min |
| Jul 6, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Sumter | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Richland, Sumter | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 23 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 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1847 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts, Chattahoochee and 49 more | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts, Candler and 45 more | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 3:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 4 more | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fannin, Rabun, Towns, Union, White | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 8:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Edgecombe and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Graham, Swain | 57 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.