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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 476

June 22, 200042 counties in Georgia; Anson County, Union County, North Carolina; 28 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT for 42 counties in Georgia; Anson County, Union County, North Carolina; 28 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 72 counties

Appling County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Anson County, NC, Union County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

40 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach	37 min
Jun 22, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	41 min
Jun 22, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	61 min
Jun 22, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Jeff Davis	31 min
Jun 22, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Evans, Liberty	34 min
Jun 22, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	39 min
Jun 22, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	35 min
Jun 22, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	42 min
Jun 22, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	50 min
Jun 22, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	29 min
Jun 22, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	25 min
Jun 22, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marlboro	67 min
Jun 22, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	47 min
Jun 22, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	41 min
Jun 22, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry	34 min
Jun 22, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	32 min
Jun 22, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	40 min
Jun 22, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Hampton	39 min
Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	50 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	46 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon	42 min
Jun 22, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	41 min
Jun 22, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	36 min
Jun 22, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	49 min
Jun 22, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock	24 min
Jun 22, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	52 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	34 min
Jun 22, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	49 min
Jun 22, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence	62 min
Jun 22, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Washington	26 min
Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	49 min
Jun 22, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	27 min
Jun 22, 6:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Barnwell	26 min
Jun 22, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	18 min
Jun 22, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	49 min
Jun 22, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	42 min
Jun 22, 6:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Richmond	2 hr
Jun 22, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	27 min
Jun 22, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	36 min
Jun 22, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Twiggs, Wilkinson	34 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 42 more	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.