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Tornado Watch 614

August 8, 202437 counties in North Carolina; 53 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 8, 2024, 12:43 PM EDT for 37 counties in North Carolina; 53 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2024, 12:43 PM EDT (16:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2024, 6:43 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
0.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 90 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Amelia County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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
40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
20%
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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 1:24 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChowan, Perquimans20 min
Aug 8, 1:38 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGates37 min
Aug 8, 1:38 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRNKCharlotte, Halifax8 hr
Aug 8, 1:49 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQDinwiddie, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex26 min
Aug 8, 2:07 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGates23 min
Aug 8, 2:13 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight, City of Suffolk32 min
Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Dinwiddie31 min
Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAKQIsle of Wight, City of Suffolk31 min
Aug 8, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Gates25 min
Aug 8, 2:36 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRNKAmherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, City of Lynchburg12 hr
Aug 8, 2:59 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight, Southampton, City of Suffolk31 min
Aug 8, 3:09 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Gates36 min
Aug 8, 3:16 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRAHJohnston, Wake, Wayne, Wilson2 hr
Aug 8, 3:29 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Vance, Warren31 min
Aug 8, 3:44 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight, City of Suffolk31 min
Aug 8, 4:00 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Nash30 min
Aug 8, 4:11 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight, James City, Surry34 min
Aug 8, 4:12 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHEdgecombe, Nash, Wilson33 min
Aug 8, 4:29 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Granville, Vance31 min
Aug 8, 4:31 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedRAHFranklin, Granville, Vance29 min
Aug 8, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHEdgecombe, Halifax, Nash27 min
Aug 8, 5:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQMecklenburg6 hr
Aug 8, 5:25 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQPrince George, Surry, Sussex35 min
Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Jones, Pitt32 min
Aug 8, 6:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQChesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond112 min
Aug 8, 6:23 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin, Pitt52 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 906 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 322 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
906 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
8.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 10:34 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more4 hr
Aug 8, 2:19 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Dare and 18 more116 min
Aug 8, 2:49 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 32 more10 hr
Aug 8, 5:47 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chatham, Chowan and 37 more118 min
Aug 8, 8:59 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 32 more91 min
Aug 8, 11:18 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Edgecombe and 18 more117 min
Aug 8, 3:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 23 more2 hr
Aug 8, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Chowan and 32 more12 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.