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Tornado Watch 102
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 6, 2022, 4:21 PM EDT for 28 counties in Georgia; 18 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2022, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2022, 12:26 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 46 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 36 min |
| Apr 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Apr 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 118 min |
| Apr 6, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg | 24 min |
| Apr 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 39 min |
| Apr 6, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 38 min |
| Apr 6, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 55 min |
| Apr 6, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 13 min |
| Apr 6, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 57 min |
| Apr 6, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 32 min |
| Apr 6, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 49 min |
| Apr 6, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 9 min |
| Apr 6, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Liberty and 3 more | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 60 min |
| Apr 6, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Screven | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Jeff Davis | 11 min |
| Apr 6, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 35 min |
| Apr 6, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 67 min |
| Apr 6, 10:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 18 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 12:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 51 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brantley and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brooks and 73 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 22 more | 85 min |
| Apr 6, 4:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Chatham and 13 more | 88 min |
| Apr 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 4:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richmond | 92 min |
| Apr 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 38 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 117 min |
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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.