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Tornado Watch 104
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 7, 2022, 3:09 PM EDT for 37 counties in North Carolina; 43 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2022, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2022, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 80 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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
- 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
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wake | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Franklin, Granville, Vance, Wake | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 44 min |
| Apr 7, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Sampson, Wayne and 1 more | 44 min |
| Apr 7, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford, Northampton | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 42 min |
| Apr 7, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News and 4 more | 40 min |
| Apr 7, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir | 40 min |
| Apr 7, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 2 more | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 6:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 16 min |
| Apr 7, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 24 min |
| Apr 7, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 54 min |
| Apr 7, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Pitt | 15 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 7, 2:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 34 more | 62 min |
| Apr 7, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, New Hanover, Pender and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare and 15 more | 115 min |
| Apr 7, 4:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates and 6 more | 83 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.