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Tornado Watch 724
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 29, 2024, 6:02 AM EST for 23 counties in Georgia; 14 counties in North Carolina; 38 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2024, 6:02 AM EST (11:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2024, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 75 counties
Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Evans County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Anderson 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, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 6:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 70 min |
| Dec 29, 6:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Hart | 62 min |
| Dec 29, 6:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 61 min |
| Dec 29, 7:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood | 60 min |
| Dec 29, 7:03 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 27 min |
| Dec 29, 7:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 49 min |
| Dec 29, 7:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania and 1 more | 79 min |
| Dec 29, 7:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 61 min |
| Dec 29, 7:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 73 min |
| Dec 29, 7:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Union | 56 min |
| Dec 29, 7:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 18 min |
| Dec 29, 8:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 57 min |
| Dec 29, 8:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 67 min |
| Dec 29, 8:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens, Union | 34 min |
| Dec 29, 8:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 21 min |
| Dec 29, 8:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 73 min |
| Dec 29, 8:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 24 min |
| Dec 29, 8:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and 2 more | 80 min |
| Dec 29, 8:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union, York | 41 min |
| Dec 29, 8:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Lexington and 2 more | 66 min |
| Dec 29, 8:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Richland | 19 min |
| Dec 29, 8:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 76 min |
| Dec 29, 9:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell, Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 2 more | 79 min |
| Dec 29, 9:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 43 min |
| Dec 29, 9:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee and 1 more | 64 min |
| Dec 29, 9:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 35 min |
| Dec 29, 9:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 55 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 12:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Haralson, Heard and 2 more | 116 min |
| Dec 29, 1:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 91 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 2:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Harris, Houston, Lamar and 16 more | 54 min |
| Dec 29, 4:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 58 more | 84 min |
| Dec 29, 5:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke and 32 more | 53 min |
| Dec 29, 7:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Clinch, Cook, Echols, Grady, Lanier and 3 more | 59 min |
| Dec 29, 8:32 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 1 more | 88 min |
| Dec 29, 8:34 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 29, 9:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:35 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 17 more | 85 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.