Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 635
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 5, 2019, 4:20 AM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, Marion County, South Carolina. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2019, 4:20 AM EDT (08:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2019, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 5%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 20%
Warnings issued inside it
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 4:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 4:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 4:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 4:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 20 min |
| Sep 5, 5:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 5:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 5:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 5:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 27 min |
| Sep 5, 5:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 5:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 5:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 52 min |
| Sep 5, 5:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 45 min |
| Sep 5, 5:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 6:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Horry | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 6:07 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 38 min |
| Sep 5, 6:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 6:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 43 min |
| Sep 5, 6:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 12 min |
| Sep 5, 6:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 6:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 6:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Pender | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 7:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 7:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 50 min |
| Sep 5, 7:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 7:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 7:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 26 min |
| Sep 5, 8:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 8:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 114 min |
| Sep 5, 9:19 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 26 min |
| Sep 5, 9:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 10:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 114 min |
| Sep 5, 10:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 11:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 12:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 29 min |
| Sep 5, 1:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 35 min |
| Sep 5, 2:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 9 hr |
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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 3:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 119 min |
| Sep 5, 6:00 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, New Hanover | 60 min |
| Sep 5, 6:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe and 13 more | 65 min |
| Sep 5, 7:28 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Cumberland, Dare, Duplin and 16 more | 11 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:58 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | New Hanover, Pender | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Johnston, Jones and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 17 more | 12 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.