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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Charleston, SC

March 16, 2000Long County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 4:47 PM EST for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
Mar 16, 2000, 4:47 PM EST (21:47 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 2000, 5:30 PM EST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Long County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Mar 16, 5:15 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50 ELudowici, GAPower 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 16, 2:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 2000-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 241 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 2000-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 162147
SVRCHS
GAC183-162230-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
447 PM EST THU MAR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 530 PM EST.

* AT 445 PM EST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUDOWICI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LUDOWICI AROUND 500 PM EST

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WIATH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
$$

JAC/MJR

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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.