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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Charleston, SC

April 30, 1996Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1996, 12:42 AM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1996, 12:42 AM EDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1996, 1:15 AM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Screven County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 278 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -165 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.