Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 1:50 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bulloch County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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, 2:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Statesboro, GA | Trees and limbs 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 141751 RRA SVRCHS GAC031-141830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 150 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...BULLOCH COUNTY RADAR HAD INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BULLOCH COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE OVER CANDLER COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH AND OUT OF THE COUNTY BEFORE 230 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...X AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 54 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.