Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 349
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2016, 4:14 PM EDT for 33 counties in North Carolina; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2016, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
38 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson, Wayne | 36 min |
| Jul 7, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 27 min |
| Jul 7, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Marion | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Horry, Marion | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow, Pitt | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Lee, Sumter | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry, Saluda | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg and 2 more | 48 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 7, 3:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 20 more | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 6:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus and 30 more | 66 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.