Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 18, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT for 36 counties in Georgia; 14 counties in North Carolina; 28 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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.
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland, Sumter | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 66 min |
| Aug 18, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marlboro | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marlboro | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Darlington | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 2682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bladen, Chatham, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun and 15 more | 5 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.