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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 339
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2016, 4:03 PM EDT for 12 counties in Georgia; 6 counties in North Carolina; 16 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2016, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 7:46 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Hampton, Jasper | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Marion | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 60 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 93 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
- 835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts and 61 more | 4 hr |
| 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North 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.