Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 2000, 12:02 AM EST for Burke County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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
- Dec 17, 2000, 12:02 AM EST (05:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burke County, GA, Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 12:10 AM EST | Tornado F2 | Augusta, GA | An F2 tornado intermittently touched down along a 2 mile path. Extensive damage was done to the Timberidge subdivision and to other homes and mobile homes along its path. Eight people were injurred, one seriously. There were no deaths. |
| Dec 17, 12:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Waynesboro, GA | EOC reported several trees down in the Waynesboro area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCAE 170503 SVRCAE GAC033-245-170545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1202 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1245 AM EST. * AT 1155 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF HEPHZIBAH...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF FORT GORDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FORT GORDON AT 1210 AM EST SOUTH AUGUSTA AT 1215 AM EST AUGUSTA AT 1225 AM EST A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REPORT ANY HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER JSERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLUMBIA.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.