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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Charleston, SC

March 4, 2000Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2000, 7:57 AM EST for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 2000, 7:57 AM EST (12:57 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 2000, 8:30 AM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jenkins County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 2000-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 606 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 2000-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 041300
SVRCHS
GAC165-041330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
757 AM EST SAT MAR 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN JENKINS COUNTY IN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 830 AM EST.

* AT 757 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST
  OF MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOZCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HERNDON 
  AND MILLEN.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

.END/

LAT...LON 3278 8230 3265 8215 3295 8173 3313 8193

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.