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Tornado Watch 5

January 9, 20244 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 9, 2024, 11:41 AM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 9, 2024, 11:41 AM EST (16:41 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2024, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 87 counties

Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia 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, Wayne County, GA, Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union 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, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

110 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 11:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Columbia, McDuffie	46 min
Jan 9, 11:45 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Laurens	7 hr
Jan 9, 11:53 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	5 hr
Jan 9, 11:55 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Chester, Spartanburg, Union, York	65 min
Jan 9, 12:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, Greenwood, Laurens, Union	75 min
Jan 9, 12:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Columbia, Lincoln	61 min
Jan 9, 12:21 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GSP	Cherokee, Union	6 hr
Jan 9, 12:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond	64 min
Jan 9, 12:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 2 more	40 min
Jan 9, 12:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Jeff Davis and 1 more	64 min
Jan 9, 12:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	78 min
Jan 9, 12:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Burke	43 min
Jan 9, 12:52 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Pierce, Ware	38 min
Jan 9, 12:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall	67 min
Jan 9, 1:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland and 1 more	52 min
Jan 9, 1:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan	68 min
Jan 9, 1:11 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	6 hr
Jan 9, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Burke, Richmond	48 min
Jan 9, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Jeff Davis	33 min
Jan 9, 1:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne	28 min
Jan 9, 1:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	43 min
Jan 9, 1:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Long, Tattnall	42 min
Jan 9, 1:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Evans, Tattnall	42 min
Jan 9, 1:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	38 min
Jan 9, 1:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee and 1 more	63 min
Jan 9, 1:30 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Wayne	30 min
Jan 9, 1:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	73 min
Jan 9, 1:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Echols and 3 more	57 min
Jan 9, 1:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist	51 min
Jan 9, 1:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery, Stanly	51 min
Jan 9, 1:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne	35 min
Jan 9, 1:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Baker	30 min
Jan 9, 1:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	8 hr
Jan 9, 1:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	59 min
Jan 9, 1:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Liberty, Long, Tattnall	29 min
Jan 9, 1:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Wayne	27 min
Jan 9, 1:48 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	7 hr
Jan 9, 1:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Screven	37 min
Jan 9, 1:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Nassau	65 min
Jan 9, 1:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington and 2 more	65 min
Jan 9, 1:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	50 min
Jan 9, 1:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Long and 1 more	48 min
Jan 9, 1:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	48 min
Jan 9, 1:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	62 min
Jan 9, 1:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Burke	61 min
Jan 9, 2:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 2 more	43 min
Jan 9, 2:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly	57 min
Jan 9, 2:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist, Marion	51 min
Jan 9, 2:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	46 min
Jan 9, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Putnam	30 min
Jan 9, 2:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Lexington, Richland	20 min
Jan 9, 2:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	26 min
Jan 9, 2:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Liberty, Long	37 min
Jan 9, 2:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	18 min
Jan 9, 2:28 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	5 hr
Jan 9, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	60 min
Jan 9, 2:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Alachua	26 min
Jan 9, 2:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long and 1 more	63 min
Jan 9, 2:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	19 min
Jan 9, 2:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Nassau and 3 more	61 min
Jan 9, 2:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	64 min
Jan 9, 2:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Randolph	30 min
Jan 9, 2:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	58 min
Jan 9, 2:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Calhoun, Orangeburg	28 min
Jan 9, 2:51 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Union	4 hr
Jan 9, 2:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Marion, Putnam	63 min
Jan 9, 2:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	32 min
Jan 9, 2:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Bamberg, Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington and 3 more	47 min
Jan 9, 2:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Horry	47 min
Jan 9, 3:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAX	Glynn	15 min
Jan 9, 3:07 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly	4 hr
Jan 9, 3:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Union	37 min
Jan 9, 3:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Nassau	36 min
Jan 9, 3:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Sumter	32 min
Jan 9, 3:16 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Marion	29 min
Jan 9, 3:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and 1 more	68 min
Jan 9, 3:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	36 min
Jan 9, 3:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, Jasper	65 min
Jan 9, 3:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	49 min
Jan 9, 3:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty	57 min
Jan 9, 3:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	26 min
Jan 9, 3:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Alachua, Marion, Putnam	25 min
Jan 9, 3:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon	49 min
Jan 9, 3:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Orangeburg, Sumter	76 min
Jan 9, 3:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam, Saint Johns	27 min
Jan 9, 3:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford, Randolph	40 min
Jan 9, 3:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clay, Duval, Saint Johns	22 min
Jan 9, 3:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	48 min
Jan 9, 3:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Lee	62 min
Jan 9, 3:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro, Williamsburg	62 min
Jan 9, 3:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Marion, Putnam	14 min
Jan 9, 3:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	7 min
Jan 9, 4:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Marion, Putnam, Saint Johns	44 min
Jan 9, 4:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Marion	26 min
Jan 9, 4:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Duval, Saint Johns	6 min
Jan 9, 4:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lee, Sumter	17 min
Jan 9, 4:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	61 min
Jan 9, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Putnam, Saint Johns	45 min
Jan 9, 4:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 2 more	41 min
Jan 9, 4:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph	67 min
Jan 9, 4:23 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Lancaster	112 min
Jan 9, 4:25 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	3 hr
Jan 9, 4:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	67 min
Jan 9, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Marion, Putnam, Saint Johns	33 min
Jan 9, 4:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Flagler, Putnam	33 min
Jan 9, 4:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Marion, Marlboro and 1 more	61 min
Jan 9, 5:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	52 min
Jan 9, 5:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler	17 min
Jan 9, 5:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	13 min
Jan 9, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	60 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 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 464 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 799 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 8:03 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Escambia, Santa Rosa	117 min
Jan 8, 9:42 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more	11 hr
Jan 9, 12:57 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Escambia	93 min
Jan 9, 3:44 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	2 hr
Jan 9, 6:36 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more	3 hr
Jan 9, 7:07 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden and 15 more	7 hr
Jan 9, 10:05 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 5 more	85 min
Jan 9, 10:45 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam and 2 more	2 hr
Jan 9, 12:42 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake and 12 more	2 hr
Jan 9, 1:15 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando and 15 more	7 hr
Jan 9, 1:16 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton and 4 more	89 min
Jan 9, 3:34 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Citrus, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough and 9 more	86 min
Jan 9, 6:48 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 9 more	87 min
Jan 9, 9:32 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Columbia, Crawford and 22 more	88 min
Jan 9, 12:56 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burke, Columbia, Effingham, Richmond, Screven	94 min
Jan 9, 1:32 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham, Columbus and 41 more	58 min
Jan 9, 1:46 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden and 52 more	9 hr
Jan 9, 3:26 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender	94 min
Jan 9, 4:02 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 52 more	88 min

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.