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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Charleston, SC

June 14, 1997Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 5:59 PM EDT for Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 min. 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 14, 1997, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Tattnall County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

658 
WUUS1 KCHS 142200 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC267-142300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
559 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...TATTNALL COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TOOMBS COUNTY IS MOVING TOWARDS TATTNALL
COUNTY AT 30 MPH. STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE
EXPECTED IN TATTNALL COUNTY BY 610 PM. EXPECT THE STORMS TO REACH
REIDSVILLE BY 620 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
230 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997

BUSY W/SVR WX SO WILL KEEP IT SHORT. 5H SHORTWAVE TROF TO MOV THRU THIS
EVE AND OFF THE CST BY 12Z. GUID TEMPS AND POPS SIMILAR...SO WILL NOT
DEVIATE TOO MUCH...SCA CAN STAY UP TONIGHT WITH FNT MOVG THRU.

.S CST...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM...
.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY A 40 PCT CHC OF TSTMS...MAINLY THIS EVENING...
SOME MAY BE SEVERE. LOW AROUND 70. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 MPH THIS EVENING
BECOMING NORTHWEST 10 MPH LATE.
.SUNDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE MORNING BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MIDDLE 80S. NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLR. LOW IN THE UPPR 60S INLND TO THE LWR 70S CST.
.MONDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S CST TO THE UPPR 80S INLND.

.CWF...
.SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY...
.TONIGHT...SW WIND 20 KT. SEAS 5 FT. SHOWERS AND TSTMS.
.SUN...NW WIND 15 KT SHIFTING NE IN THE LATE AFTN. SEAS 5 FT.
.SUN NIGHT...NE WIND 15 KT OR LESS. SEAS 4 FT.
.MON...NE WIND 15 KT SHIFTING SE IN THE LATE AFTN. SEAS 4 FT.

MRV

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
307 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM    PULASKI                   GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/97   CANDLER                        TREES DOWN AND SHEDS
                                          OVERTURNED.

TJR

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
307 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM    PULASKI                   GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/97   CANDLER                        TREES DOWN AND SHEDS
                                          OVERTURNED.

TJR

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

SCZ040-042>045-047>050-502-142045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
345 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES
OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED OFF THE COAST AS OF 345 PM AND
THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS NOW DIMINISHED.

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

SCZ040-042>045-047>050-502-142045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
345 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES
OF8 SOUTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED OFF THE COAST AS OF 345 PM AND
THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS NOW DIMINISHED.

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, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	40 min
Jun 14, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Tattnall	61 min
Jun 14, 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.