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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 514
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 30, 2016, 3:23 PM EST for 28 counties in Georgia; 14 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 2016, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2016, 6:52 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- 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
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 48 min |
| Nov 30, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 38 min |
| Nov 30, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 46 min |
| Nov 30, 4:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 48 min |
| Nov 30, 4:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens and 2 more | 49 min |
| Nov 30, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 4:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 5:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry | 65 min |
| Nov 30, 5:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union, York | 49 min |
| Nov 30, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Nov 30, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, Union | 40 min |
| Nov 30, 6:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Newberry | 54 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 10:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 62 min |
| Nov 29, 11:11 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Nov 30, 12:17 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 118 min |
| Nov 30, 2:07 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 53 min |
| Nov 30, 3:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Fannin and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 30, 6:10 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 16 more | 95 min |
| Nov 30, 10:00 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 30, 12:06 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Calhoun and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 30, 1:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Barrow, Butts, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley and 70 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 30, 5:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Hancock, Lincoln, McDuffie and 5 more | 92 min |
| Nov 30, 5:45 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady and 7 more | 30 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.