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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Charleston, SC

August 9, 2000Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 6:28 PM EDT for Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
Aug 9, 2000, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Tattnall County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 9, 6:40 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EReidsville, GATrees down.
Aug 9, 6:40 PM EDTHail 0.75Reidsville, 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 2000-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 884 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 2000-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
884 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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 092229
SVRCHS
GAC267-092300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
628 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 620 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR   
REIDSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
RURAL WESTERN TATTNALL COUNTY

DIME SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

TJR/JH

LAT...LON 3207 8221 3195 8215 3208 8197 3222 8214

NNNN

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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.