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Tornado Watch 566
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 10, 2022, 12:47 PM EST for 13 counties in Georgia; 7 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2022, 12:47 PM EST (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2022, 6:31 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 5%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 20%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 27 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 682 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 686 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:02 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Glynn | 7 hr |
| Nov 10, 10:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Glynn | 89 min |
| Nov 10, 12:31 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, McIntosh | 89 min |
| Nov 10, 5:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty and 4 more | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 6:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 3 more | 6 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.