Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 1:21 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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 14, 1997, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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 14, 1:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Newington, GA | Several trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 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
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 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 141722 RRA SVRCHS GAC251-141815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 121 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...SCREVEN COUNTY CHARLESTON RADAR HAS INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN SCREVEN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 14, 9:42 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:42 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 940 AM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997 CURR FCST PRETTY MUCH ON TRACK. S/W WL APPROACH AREA LATE THIS AFT...THEN MOVE THRU TNGT. AREA OF SHRA/TSRA FM UPSTATE SC THRU NRN GA MOVG NE MAY EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO CSTL PLAIN LATER ON. EITHER THAT...OR MORE ACTIVITY WL LIKELY DEVELOP. THINK THERE IS A DECENT CHC FOR SVR WX...ONLY LIMITING FACTOR WL BE INSOLATION. LATEST VIS SATIMG SHOWING PLENTY OF CLOUDS MOVG INTO AREA FM SW. OTHER THAN THAT...SHARP GIVING US CAPE OF 3100 J/KG THIS AFT WITH LI OF -8. GRIDDED DATA SHOWING GUD DIVRG ALOFT THRU THIS AFT. WUD SUGGEST ON ZFP TO GO P/SUNNY INSTEAD OF P/CLOUDY. TEMPS LOOK OK. SUGGEST ADDING BREEZY THIS AFT AND BUMPING WINDS UP TO 15 TO 25 MPH. H85 JET OF 35 KT PROGGED TO BE OVER US BY THIS EVE. ON CWF...HOIST SCA. WINDS ARE ALREADY 20 KT. SEAS ARE NR 5 FT. SUGGEST SW WIND 25 KT THIS AFT WITH 6 FT SEAS. MRP GUID AND BL WINDS INDICATE AT LEAST 20 KT SUSTAINED...PERHAPS 25 KT BY LATE AFT. TJR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Evans | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every 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.