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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, SC

July 7, 2000Long County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 5:02 PM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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
Jul 7, 2000, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Long County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ELudowici, GAPowerlines down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 2000-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 957 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 2000-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 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 072101
SVRCHS
GAC183-072130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
502 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 500 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF DONALD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUDOWICI.  THE
  STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

HAIL TO ONE INCH AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

LAT...LON 3187 8203 3169 8203 3167 8178 3190 8178

RVT
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.