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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Charleston, SC

May 22, 2000Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2000, 8:20 PM EDT for Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
May 22, 2000, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2000, 8:50 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Tattnall County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 588 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

573 
WUUS52 KCHS 230020
SVRCHS
GAC267-230050-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
820 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 850 PM EDT.

* AT 816 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF TATTNALL NEAR REIDSVILLE... MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MENDES AROUND 830 PM

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

MJR/SR

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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.