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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Charleston, SC

June 15, 1996Bulloch County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 7:39 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1996, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Bulloch County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 7:44 PM EDTHail 0.88Statesboro, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1996-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 860 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1996-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 9:49 AM EDT, 9 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 9:49 AM EDT, 9 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
945 AM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996

INVERTED TROF AT SFC MORE OR LESS STNRY OVER INTERIOR SXNS OF STATE
THRU AT LEAST 36 HR.  NO NEW INFORMATION TO CONFLICT WITH PACKAGE..
OTHER THAN PSBLY A DROP TO 10 KT ON CWF...WIND IN LOWEST ELEVATIONS AT
CHS THIS MORNING 10KT OR LESS...AND CURRENT OBS MOSTLY 5 KT OR LESS.

JFT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:35 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven51 min
Jun 15, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.