Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 2:19 PM EST for McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 2:19 PM EST (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDuffie County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2:25 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Thomson, GA | Sheriff reported numerous trees down in the area. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 1:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCAE 191921 SVRCAE GAC189-192000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 219 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EST. * AT 213 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO MCDUFFIE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... THOMSON AT 225 PM EST A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLUMBIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jan 19, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 31 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.