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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC

June 23, 1997Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1997, 7:18 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1997, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1997, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Jenkins County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 1997-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1469 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 1997-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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.

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 232320
FFWCHS
GAC165-240215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
718 PM EDT MON JUN 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING      EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...JENKINS COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR HAS NOW INDICATED OVER THREE /3.00/ INCHES OF RAINFALL IN
THE PAST HOUR OVER SOUTHEAST JENKINS COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO
OF RAIN IS LIKELY BETWEEN 715 AND 815 PM. AREAS AROUND SCARBORO AND THE
OGEECHEE RIVER SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSJenkins61 min
Jun 23, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven59 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every flash flood 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.