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Tornado Watch 568
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 11, 2022, 12:42 AM EST for 6 counties in North Carolina; 29 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2022, 12:42 AM EST (05:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2022, 8:50 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
All 35 counties
Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland, Sumter | 28 min |
| Nov 11, 3:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland | 29 min |
| Nov 11, 4:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Florence | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 7:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 17 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 2 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:36 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 55 more | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 6:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 62 more | 12 hr |
| Nov 11, 12:06 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Halifax and 8 more | 114 min |
| Nov 11, 2:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gates, Hertford, Northampton | 2 hr |
| Nov 11, 6:05 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, Vance, Warren | 85 min |
| Nov 11, 2:40 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Clarendon, Dorchester, Kershaw and 6 more | 2 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.