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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, SC

July 22, 2000Bryan County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 22, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
25 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 21:07 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 5:15 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ERichmond Hill, GA

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2000-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2668 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2000-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
2668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

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

781 
WUUS52 KCHS 222105
SVRCHS
GAC029-222130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
505 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 505 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR EAST
  CENTRAL BRYAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND HILL...
  MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  
  FORT STEWART MILITARY RESERVATION

DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

LAT...LON 3197 8129 3203 8136 3198 8145 3191 8139

EVT

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSChatham33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.