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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Charleston, SC

June 4, 2000McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2000, 3:34 PM EDT for McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
Jun 4, 2000, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County McIntosh County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 330 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 041936
SVRCHS
GAC191-042015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
334 PM EDT SUN JUN 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 331 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH
  OF COX...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF DARIEN...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

*THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED NEAR...
  DARIEN AT 350 PM EDT.
  RIDGEVILLE AT 355 PM EDT.
  CARNIGAN...CRESCENT AT 400 PM EDT.
  VALONA AT 405 PM EDT.
  SAPELO ISLAND AT 415 PM EDT.

HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

LAT...LON 3151 8165 3133 8165 3128 8112 3153 8112

NNNN

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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.