Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 8:34 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia; Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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 23, 2000, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Screven County, GA, Hampton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Newington, GA | Trees and power lines down. |
| Jul 23, 8:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Garnett, SC | Large limbs 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
817 WUUS52 KCHS 240034 SVRCHS GAC251-SCC049-240100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 834 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SCREVEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA. EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HAMPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 900 PM EDT. * AT 828 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EAST OF NEWINGTON...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SYLVANIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTHWESTERN HAMPTON COUNTY WEST OF HIGHWAY 321 DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. $$ LAT...LON 3268 8156 3252 8146 3258 8129 3273 8138 EVT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 9:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.