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Tornado Watch 684

September 26, 202440 counties in Georgia; 24 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 26, 2024, 8:32 AM EDT for 40 counties in Georgia; 24 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 2024, 8:32 AM EDT (12:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 64 counties

Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Macon County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson 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, Fairfield County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 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
90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
20%
Ten or more severe wind reports
10%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 10:28 AM EDTTornado WarningCAEBamberg, Orangeburg32 min
Sep 26, 10:56 AM EDTTornado WarningCAECalhoun, Orangeburg34 min
Sep 26, 11:11 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSLiberty, Long, McIntosh34 min
Sep 26, 11:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAELexington, Richland2 hr
Sep 26, 12:57 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton18 min
Sep 26, 12:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAEBamberg, Orangeburg3 hr
Sep 26, 12:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEBamberg31 min
Sep 26, 1:01 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCDodge, Laurens, Wheeler29 min
Sep 26, 1:26 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEBamberg, Orangeburg34 min
Sep 26, 1:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEClarendon, Lee, Sumter25 min
Sep 26, 1:40 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCLaurens35 min
Sep 26, 1:48 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCToombs27 min
Sep 26, 1:56 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCJohnson, Laurens, Wilkinson15 min
Sep 26, 2:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAECalhoun, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland4 hr
Sep 26, 2:24 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCTelfair36 min
Sep 26, 2:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAEBurke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond5 hr
Sep 26, 2:40 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFFCTelfair35 min
Sep 26, 2:55 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCTelfair31 min
Sep 26, 3:04 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler26 min
Sep 26, 3:18 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCDodge, Telfair, Wheeler27 min
Sep 26, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler25 min
Sep 26, 4:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAELincoln3 hr
Sep 26, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley, Charleston, Dorchester26 min
Sep 26, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton43 min
Sep 26, 8:42 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSChatham33 min
Sep 26, 8:42 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSMcIntosh25 min
Sep 26, 8:47 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMontgomery, Wheeler28 min
Sep 26, 8:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall29 min
Sep 26, 8:54 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCHSBryan, Chatham, Liberty51 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2024-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2024-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 7:36 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 11 more114 min
Sep 26, 10:12 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtkinson, Baker, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden and 20 more63 min
Sep 26, 10:49 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more11 hr
Sep 26, 12:42 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham and 11 more2 hr
Sep 26, 1:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Crisp and 22 more53 min
Sep 26, 3:40 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 39 more2 hr
Sep 26, 4:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden and 16 more2 hr
Sep 26, 6:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 17 more5 hr
Sep 26, 7:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden and 15 more88 min
Sep 26, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 20 more9 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.