Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 120
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2017, 4:36 PM EDT for 16 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2017, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2017, 8:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Wayne County, NC, 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, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence, Marlboro | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee, Moore | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Dorchester | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore, Wake | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 33 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee and 5 more | 90 min |
| Apr 3, 6:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden and 47 more | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 10:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Barnwell, Edgefield and 5 more | 83 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Edgefield and 5 more | 63 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.