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Tornado Watch 83
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2024, 1:00 AM EDT for 37 counties in Georgia; 15 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2024, 1:00 AM EDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Marion and 3 more | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 3:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Peach and 3 more | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 3:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 3:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Laurens, Peach, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Washington, Wilkinson | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 18 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 4:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 5:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 5:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 5:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 6:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 26 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Heard, Troup | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Heard, Troup | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:13 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 92 min |
| Apr 3, 2:34 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley and 54 more | 97 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Thomas | 89 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 14 more | 56 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.