Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 10:40 PM EST for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 30, 1997, 10:40 PM EST (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 11:15 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Screven County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 10:46 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Dover, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCHS 310344 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC251-300415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1040 PM EST SUN MAR 30 1997
...CORRCTED DATE....
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN GEORGIA
...SCREVEN COUNTY
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYLVANIA
GEORGIA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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 Mar 30, 8:51 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 8:51 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 850 PM EST SUN MAR 30 1997 RADAR SHOWS PCPN IN CNTRL GA. HI CLDS WL THCKN ACRS SERN SC...AND CUR FCST POPS IN LINE ATTM BUT MAY NEED TO BE NINCREASES IN SC. HI DWPTS HAV MOVED INLND ACRS S CSTL SC AND MAY SEE A FEW TSTMS BY MDNT...IN LINE WITH CAE SFD. CUR WINDS AT PILOT BOAT SW AT 15 KT...IN LINE WITH CUR FCST. CUR ZONES/CWF OK. RMC
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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.