Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 61
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2019, 12:54 PM EDT for 32 counties in Georgia; 27 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2019, 12:54 PM EDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2019, 6:32 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
All 59 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler 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, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Hart, Stephens | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 56 min |
| Apr 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski, Wilcox | 17 min |
| Apr 14, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 2:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 7 min |
| Apr 14, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 36 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 1:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 5:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Coweta, Dade and 11 more | 115 min |
| Apr 14, 6:36 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Coweta, Dade and 11 more | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 7:28 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 69 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 8:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 53 more | 83 min |
| Apr 14, 11:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, McDuffie and 5 more | 117 min |
| Apr 14, 2:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch and 9 more | 83 min |
| Apr 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 20 more | 116 min |
| Apr 14, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Effingham | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester and 6 more | 3 hr |
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.