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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Charleston, SC

April 15, 1999Candler County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1999, 2:35 PM EDT for Candler County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 15, 1999, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1999, 3:05 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Candler County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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 15, 3:05 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Metter, GA	Minor damage to the roof of one house, storage sheds, and a couple of trees 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Apr 14, 3:06 PM EDT, 23 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:06 PM EDT, 23 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 3:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Hampton	32 min
Apr 15, 3:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jasper	34 min
Apr 15, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Hampton	31 min
Apr 15, 4:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Beaufort	28 min
Apr 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Colleton	45 min
Apr 15, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	32 min
Apr 15, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	35 min
Apr 15, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	34 min
Apr 15, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	49 min
Apr 15, 7:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Dorchester	34 min
Apr 15, 12:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Candler	35 min
Apr 15, 1:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	45 min
Apr 15, 1:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	47 min
Apr 15, 2:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Candler	31 min
Apr 15, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	30 min
Apr 15, 3:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Effingham, Screven	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.