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Tornado Watch 98
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2022, 3:15 PM EDT for 26 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2022, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 46 counties
Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
50 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 17 min |
| Apr 5, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Colleton, Hampton | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Tattnall | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Clarendon, Orangeburg | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale, Colleton, Hampton | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 22 min |
| Apr 5, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Richland, Sumter | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Pierce, Wayne | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Lexington, Saluda | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Ware | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Lexington, Richland | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Long and 2 more | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Orangeburg | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Orangeburg | 24 min |
| Apr 5, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 7:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Orangeburg | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Lee, Sumter | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Lee, Sumter | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton, Glynn | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 43 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 11:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 64 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:03 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 69 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 36 more | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Charlton and 16 more | 115 min |
| Apr 5, 3:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 40 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 24 more | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn and 1 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 5:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 5:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton and 5 more | 90 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.