Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 62
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2019, 2:16 PM EDT for 52 counties in North Carolina; 23 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2019, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2019, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 75 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 3:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 3:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 3:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 13 min |
| Apr 14, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Wilkes | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Patrick | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Amherst | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Roanoke, Rockbridge and 4 more | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Bedford, Botetourt | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore | 18 min |
| Apr 14, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, City of Martinsville | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 8:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 43 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 11:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie and 16 more | 117 min |
| Apr 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Graham, Swain | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Caswell, Catawba, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth and 8 more | 85 min |
| Apr 14, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashe, Watauga | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 12:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Beaufort, Hampton, Jasper | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Augusta, Buckingham, Caroline and 48 more | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 28 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Bland, Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski and 6 more | 90 min |
| Apr 14, 7:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, City of Alexandria and 4 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.