Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 1988Barnwell County, South Carolina

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1988, 1:43 PM EDT for Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1988, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1988, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Barnwell County, SC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 12:43 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Taliaferro	66 min
Jun 30, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	31 min
Jun 30, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	43 min
Jun 30, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	2 hr
Jun 30, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Ben Hill	45 min
Jun 30, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	56 min
Jun 30, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.