Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 6:46 PM EDT for Liberty County, Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 10, 2000, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Donald, GA | Trees and power lines down. |
| Aug 10, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hinesville, GA | Large limbs and power lines 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCHS 102247 SVRCHS GAC179-183-102315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 646 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. NORTHWESTERN LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 639 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLIE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HINESVILLE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. NICKLE TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. $$ LAT...LON 3206 8175 3191 8189 3183 8180 3200 8162 NNNN SLB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 21 min |
| Aug 10, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 21 min |
| Aug 10, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 24 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.