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Tornado Watch 63
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 3, 2023, 2:41 PM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2023, 2:41 PM EST (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2023, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 77 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Roane and 2 more | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 3:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and 4 more | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 4 more | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 3:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 41 min |
| Mar 3, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Haralson, Paulding and 1 more | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Towns and 2 more | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 4:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 25 min |
| Mar 3, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Heard | 39 min |
| Mar 3, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Swain | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and 2 more | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 57 min |
| Mar 3, 4:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 23 min |
| Mar 3, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 26 min |
| Mar 3, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Transylvania | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan, Washington | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 4:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 18 min |
| Mar 3, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and 1 more | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 6:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Rutherford | 39 min |
| Mar 3, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg and 1 more | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 7:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union, York | 39 min |
| Mar 3, 7:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 23 min |
| Mar 3, 7:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union, York | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 7:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 21 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 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 3, 11:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:34 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:07 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker | 83 min |
| Mar 3, 2:12 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Fannin and 12 more | 93 min |
| Mar 3, 4:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Dawson and 19 more | 94 min |
| Mar 3, 5:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:24 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 62 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell, Carroll and 26 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Greenup and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:51 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 8 hr |
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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.