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Tornado Watch 64
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2019, 3:02 PM EDT for 23 counties in Georgia; 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2019, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2019, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 27 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 4:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 20 min |
| Apr 14, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 57 min |
| Apr 14, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Jeff Davis | 19 min |
| Apr 14, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 57 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
218 WWUS20 KWNS 141858 SEL4 SPC WW 141858 GAZ000-SCZ000-142300- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Tornado Watch Number 64 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 300 PM EDT Sun Apr 14 2019 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Tornado Watch for portions of Southeast Georgia Far southern South Carolina * Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 300 PM until 700 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... A couple tornadoes possible Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible SUMMARY...Line of thunderstorms with transient rotating structures should continue east from southwest/central Georgia. The risk for a couple brief tornadoes and locally damaging winds should persist. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east southeast of Valdosta GA to 45 miles north northwest of Savannah GA. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 60...WW 61...WW 62...WW 63... AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector 21030. ...Grams
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 3:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 8:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 4 more | 83 min |
| Apr 14, 2:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette and 3 more | 83 min |
| 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, 11:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, McDuffie and 5 more | 117 min |
| Apr 14, 12:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Elbert, Emanuel and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more | 2 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.