Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 88
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2019, 10:31 AM EDT for 46 counties in North Carolina; 11 counties in South Carolina; 35 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2019, 10:31 AM EDT (14:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 92 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore 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, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:31 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
77 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 11:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren | 13 min |
| Apr 19, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake, Wayne, Wilson | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 11:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 11:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 12 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 11:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 21 min |
| Apr 19, 12:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 12:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wayne, Wilson | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 12:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Surry | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 12:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 14 min |
| Apr 19, 1:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Watauga | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Galax | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Giles | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 1:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 2:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, Union | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 2:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Randolph | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 19 min |
| Apr 19, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 2:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Galax | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 2:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Randolph | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bath | 18 min |
| Apr 19, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 3:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Moore, Randolph | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Lee, Moore, Orange and 1 more | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Orange | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore | 23 min |
| Apr 19, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 9 min |
| Apr 19, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 18 min |
| Apr 19, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Orange | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Halifax | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 8 min |
| Apr 19, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange, Person | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee and 4 more | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 23 min |
| Apr 19, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 4:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange, Wake | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Halifax | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Orange, Person | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Nash, Sampson, Vance and 3 more | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke, City of Radford | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 5:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance, Warren | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 48 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:06 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Caswell, Catawba and 19 more | 84 min |
| Apr 19, 10:54 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 96 min |
| Apr 19, 12:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Chowan, Columbus, Craven and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 35 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 33 more | 87 min |
| Apr 19, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe and 17 more | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 6:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Chowan, Craven, Gates, Halifax and 7 more | 84 min |
| Apr 19, 10:44 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort and 20 more | 86 min |
| Apr 19, 12:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Arlington, Augusta, Buckingham, Clarke and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 28 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Caroline, Clarke, Culpeper and 35 more | 58 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.