MD 0036 CONCERNING TORNADO WATCH 14… FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA INTO SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Mesoscale Discussion 0036
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1152 AM CST Wed Jan 04 2023
Areas affected...northeastern South Carolina into southeastern North
Carolina
Concerning...Tornado Watch 14...
Valid 041752Z - 041945Z
The severe weather threat for Tornado Watch 14 continues.
SUMMARY...Local severe potential -- including locally
strong/damaging gusts and possibly a brief tornado -- continues
across northeastern South Carolina and adjacent southeastern North
Carolina.
DISCUSSION...As the ongoing band of storms moves into a zone of
greater instability per recent RAP-based objective analysis,
convection has maintained a semi-complex/linearly organized
structure, within Tornado Watch 14. Surface winds have become
gradually more veered/southwesterly across much of the area, and
thus deep-layer flow fairly unidirectional/southwesterly. Still, a
couple of north/south-oriented segments of the line -- more
orthogonal to the deep-layer shear vector -- remain particularly
capable of producing locally strong wind gusts. A brief/weak
tornado also remains possible within this convective band.
..Goss.. 01/04/2023
...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product...
ATTN...WFO...MHX...RAH...ILM...
LAT...LON 33177932 33407977 34007970 34707887 35227873 34457745
33587816 33117908 33177932
