Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1997, 3:55 AM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 23, 1997, 3:55 AM EDT (07:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1997, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Long County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 4:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Ludowici, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHS 230753 RRA SVRCHS GAC183-230845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 355 AM EDT WED APR 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...LONG COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTION OF LONG COUNTY AND WILL MOVE NEAR LUDOWICI BY 415 AM. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Candler, Tattnall | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 4:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 40 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.