Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Columbia, SC

January 10, 2000Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 10, 2000, 6:19 AM EST for Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
Jan 10, 2000, 6:19 AM EST (11:19 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 2000, 6:45 AM EST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 10, 6:00 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 65 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 101125
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-101145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
619 AM EST MON JAN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBIA COUNTY.
  LINCOLN COUNTY.

* UNTIL 645 AM EST.

* AT 609 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
  8 MILES EAST OF WASHINGTON TO 4 MILES WEST OF THOMSON WAS MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH AND TOWARD LICLON AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

.END/ JDB/RJL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 10, 6:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcDuffie35 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.