Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 8:17 PM EDT for Brantley County, Glynn County, Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2000, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Brantley County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Pleasant, GA | Large trees and power lines were blown 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2047 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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 KJAX 110021 COR SVRJAX GAC025-127-305-110115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 817 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BRANTLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA WESTERN GLYNN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 817 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT PLEASANT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDI...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 915 PM EDT... GARDI... MOUNT PLEASANT... EVERETT... THALMANN... WAYNESVILLE AND RAYBON... INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. LAT...LON 3152 8159 3158 8178 3126 8198 3117 8160 $$ JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce, Ware | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 36 min |
| Aug 11, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 28 min |
| Aug 11, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 33 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.