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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Charleston, SC

July 11, 2000Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 4:01 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
Jul 11, 2000, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Chatham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2000-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 517 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2000-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
517 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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 112001
SVRCHS
GAC051-112030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
401 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.

* AT 401 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
  BLOOMINGDALE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND HILL.  THE STORM
  WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BLOOMINGDALE.
  POOLER.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3212 8136 3204 8136 3200 +8119 3222 8119
RVT
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSTattnall37 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.