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Tornado Watch 86
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2022, 12:50 PM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina; 16 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2022, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2022, 6:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Bamberg County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 1:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Johnston, Sampson | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 1:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Stanly | 20 min |
| Mar 31, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Harnett, Lee, Orange, Wake | 29 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Davidson, Gaston and 11 more | 92 min |
| Mar 31, 2:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Franklin, Halifax and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret, Chatham, Craven and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Chowan, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates and 15 more | 116 min |
| Mar 31, 7:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico | 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.