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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Charleston, SC

March 16, 1996Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 8:01 PM EST for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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: Mar 16, 1996, 8:01 PM EST (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1996, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Screven County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 16, 8:20 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Sylvania, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 170057 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC251-170200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
801 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...SCREVEN COUNTY
 
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL SCREVEN COUNTY...PASSING
NEAR SYLVANIA BETWEEN 815 AND 830 PM. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF
55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
AT 800 PM THE STORM WAS NEAR WOODCLIFF.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT NEAR 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.

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

Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:18 PM EST, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
718 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0710 PM    SYLVANIA                  GA   TORNADO
03/16/96   SCREVEN                        TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFF...NO REPORTS
                                          AVAILABLE ON DAMAGE OR
                                          INJURIES.

Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:20 PM EST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
718 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0710 PM    SYLVANIA                  GA   TORNADO
03/16/96   SCREVEN                        TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFF...NO REPORTS
                                          AVAILABLE ON DAMAGE OR
   R                                       INJURIES.

Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:48 PM EST, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
749 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0725 PM    ALINE                     GA   TORNADO
03/16/96   CANDLER                        REPORTED RECEIVED AT
                                          METTER POLICE. TORNADO
                                          NEAR ALINE AND I-16.

0730 PM    METTER                    GA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
03/16/96   CANDLER                        REPORTS OF DAMAGING WIND
                                          GUSTS AT METTER. POWER
                                          OUTAGES.

END/LAVIS

Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:49 PM EST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
749 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0725 PM    ALINE                     GA   TORNADO
03/16/96   CANDLER                        REPORTED RECEIVED AT
                                          METTER POLICE. TORNADO
                                          NEAR ALINE AND I-16.

0730 PM    METTER                    GA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
03/16/96   CANDLER                        REPORTS OF DAMAGING WIND
                                          GUSTS AT METTER. POWER
                                          OUTAGES.

END/LAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 7:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	57 min
Mar 17, 9:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	50 min
Mar 17, 9:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	40 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.