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Tornado Watch 11
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 2022, 9:53 PM EST for 9 counties in Florida; 28 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2022, 9:53 PM EST (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2022, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Baker County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden 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, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 10:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 40 min |
| Jan 2, 10:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 72 min |
| Jan 2, 10:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 50 min |
| Jan 2, 11:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 25 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 12:17 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton and 5 more | 118 min |
| Jan 2, 7:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Fannin, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Jan 2, 9:26 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 15 more | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 11:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Emanuel and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 4:25 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dillon, Horry, Marion | 5 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.