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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Columbia, SC

June 25, 1997Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 9:24 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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 25, 1997, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1997, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 9:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Keysville, GA
Jun 25, 9:39 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Keysville, 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 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.

274 
WUUS1 KCAE 260126 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC033-260200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
924 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...WESTERN BURKE COUNTY
 
AT 927 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME WESTERN BURKE COUNTY. THE COMMUNITIES OF
VIDETTE...GOUGH...SAINT CLAIR AND KEYSVILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM
ALONG ROUTE 305. THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 15 MPH AND HAS
THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN
ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE
AS SOME TORNADOES.
 
 
CTC

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.