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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC

March 6, 1996McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 5:20 PM EST for McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1996, 5:20 PM EST (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 6:15 PM EST
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County McIntosh County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KCHS 062222 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC191-062315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
520 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...MCINTOSH COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE GEORGIA COAST
 
 
AT 520 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
MCINTOSH COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF COX. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS INTERSTATE 95 BY 540 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 2:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSTattnall67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.