Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 6:57 PM EDT for Liberty County, Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 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, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Ludowici, GA | Trees and large 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, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHS 142258 RRA SVRCHS GAC179-183-150000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 657 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN GEORGIA ...LIBERTY COUNTY...LONG COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO BE NEAR LUDOWICI AND HINESVILLE BY 705 PM. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 26 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, 3 hours 50 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.
TJRLocal storm report, Jun 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 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.
TJRSpecial weather statement, Jun 14, 3:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 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, 3 hours 9 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, 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 |
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.