Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1997, 2:51 PM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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
- Sep 16, 1997, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1997, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 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 18:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 161851 RRA SVRCHS GAC183-161945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 251 PM EDT TUE SEP 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...LONG COUNTY AT 245 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LONG COUNTY 10 MILES SOTHEAST OF LUDOWICI AND ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF TOWNSEND IN MCINTOSH COUNTY ALONG STATE ROUTE 57. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING.0..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 DON'T 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 Sep 16, 1:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 1:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1 PM EDT TUE SEP 16 1997 LIMITED MODEL DATA TO WORK WITH SO FCST WILL BE BASED MAINLY ON PERSISTENCE WITH NO MAJOR CHANGES IN OVERALL PATTERN. H2O VAP INDICATES A NEARLY STATIONARY VORT CENTER OVER SE GA. THIS FEATURE NOT PROGGED TO MOVE MUCH THROUGH TONIGHT SO GOOD MID-LEVEL DRYING NOW EVIDENT ON IMAGERY OVER MIDLANDS WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE EAST. WITH THIS TROFFINESS AND ASSOCIATED POCKET OF COLD AIR ALOFT REMAINING CLOSE BY ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AND THIS COMBINED WITH SFC TROF OFFSHORE SHUD WARRANT KEEPING A SLIGHT RISK OF SHRA ALONG THE COAST TONIGHT. FURTHER...WITH AIRMASS REMAINING JULY-LIKE HERE ALONG THE COAST PREFER TO KEEP THE MENTION OF TSRA DURING THE AFTERNOON NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. SHALLOW COASTAL FLOODING THREAT WILL CONTINUE FOR HIGH TIDES. FOR CWF...ADAP SSW STREAMLINES SHOWING BROAD NE FLOW SETTING UP BEHIND SFC TROF. RANGE FOR WINDS OFFSHORE SHUD BE NE TO SE THROUGH TOMMORROW. SOUTH COAST /CHS-NBC/ .TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM...MAINLY ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST. LOW FROM AROUND 70 INLAND TO UPPER 70S COAST. LIGHT EAST WIND. .WEDNESDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF AN AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM. HIGH FROM THE UPPER 80S COAST TO LOWER 90S INLAND. LIGHT EAST WIND BECOMING SOUTHEAST 5 TO 10 MPH. .WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM. LOW FROM AROUND 70 INLAND TO UPPER 70S COAST. .THURSDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM. HIGH FROM THE UPPER 80S COAST TO LOWER 90S INLAND. CWF .TONIGHT...VARIABLE MOSTLY E WIND 10 KT. SEAS 2 FT. WIZDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS OR TSTMS. .WED AND WED NIGHT...VARIABLE MOSTLY E WIND 10 KT. SEAS 2 FT. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS OR TSTMS. .THU...S WIND 10 KT. SEAS 2 FT. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS OR TSTMS. SIMENSKY
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.