Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Charleston, SC
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:44 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Statesboro, 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 47 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.