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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367

June 14, 2022127 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2022, 12:17 PM EDT for 127 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2022, 12:17 PM EDT (16:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2022, 6:43 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 55 kt

All 135 counties

Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:16 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: 5%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 2%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
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: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Hall	41 min
Jun 14, 12:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins, Screven	46 min
Jun 14, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	31 min
Jun 14, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	43 min
Jun 14, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens	17 min
Jun 14, 1:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor	26 min
Jun 14, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty	64 min
Jun 14, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen, Wheeler	24 min
Jun 14, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce	36 min
Jun 14, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski	23 min
Jun 14, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	48 min
Jun 14, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler	31 min
Jun 14, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh	59 min
Jun 14, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski	30 min
Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Pierce, Ware	26 min
Jun 14, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs	33 min
Jun 14, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Turner and 1 more	66 min
Jun 14, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Glynn	34 min
Jun 14, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	21 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	55 min
Jun 14, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell	69 min
Jun 14, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Lanier, Lowndes, Mitchell, Thomas	60 min
Jun 14, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	81 min
Jun 14, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Early, Randolph	65 min
Jun 14, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole	52 min
Jun 14, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay	58 min
Jun 14, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole	66 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 11:21 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Elbert and 22 more	54 min
Jun 14, 3:53 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 42 more	97 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.