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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Charleston, SC

June 13, 2000Bryan County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 3:44 PM EDT for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 13, 2000, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Bryan County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1092 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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 131948
SVRCHS
GAC029-132015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
ISSUED BY JACKSONVILLE FL
344 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 344 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING   
  NORTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RICHMOND HILL BY 355 PM EDT...

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

$$

SHASHY

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 Jun 13, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
150 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2000

H5 RIDGE MAINTAINS A GRIP OVER THE AREA THROUGH NEXT 48 HOURS. H5
TROF CURRENTLY OVER UPPER MIDWEST WILL PUSH EAST BUT WILL GET
SHUNTED NORTH AS IT ENCOUNTERS THE RIDGE WED NIGHT. AT THE
SFC...BERMUDA HI MOVES LITTLE THROUGH THE WEEK AND WILL CONTINUE TO
PUMP HOT AND HUMID AIR UP FROM THE SOUTH. LOOKS LIKE 70+ DEWPOINTS
WILL CONTINUE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. MODELS INDICATE LITTLE APPRECIABLE
CHANGE IN THE 1000-850 MB THICKNESS FIELD THROUGH THU SO EXPECT A
PERSISTENCE FCST WILL WORK OUT WELL. FWC IS ADVERTISING CHANCE POPS
NEXT TWO DAYS...APPARENTLY A RESULT OF A GOOD AMOUNT OF SFC-BASED
INSTABILITY. CAN'T SEE ANY SYNOPTIC CONTRIBUTION AND DON'T THINK
CHANCE POPS ARE WARRANTED FOR HIT OR MISS SEABREEZE-TYPE
DEVELOPMENT. ATTM THINK WIDELY SCATTERED WILL SUFFICE.

EXTENDED...MRF SHOWS UPPER RIDGE AXIS SLOWLY MOVING EAST BY THE END
OF THE WEEK BUT HAVING ENOUGH OF AN INFLUENCE TO MINIMIZE THE CHANCE
FOR ORGANIZED PRECIP THROUGH SUN. WILL STILL INCLUDE MENTION OF
ISOLATED OR WIDELY SCATTERED AFTN/EVENING TSTMS.

COASTAL...LITTLE CHANGE TO CURRENT TRENDS. SLY FLOW WILL PERSIST
AROUND SFC HI PRES WELL OFF THE SE U.S. COAST.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS
CHS 75/92/74 121     SAV 73/92/73 121
CHL 79/88/78 121     NBC 74/92/74 121

.CHS...
SC...NONE.
GOA...NONE.

MORGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Liberty	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000 Every 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.