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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Columbia, SC

June 14, 2001Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT for Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports 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
Jun 14, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EClay Hill, GASheriff reported trees down in Clay Hill.
Jun 14, 4:52 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EAppling, GAHighway dept. reported trees down on White Oak rd.

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 169 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 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
169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

889 
WUUS52 KCAE 142031
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-142100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
430 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT.

* AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN CLARKS HILL LAKE...NEAR THE
  LINCOLN AND COLUMBIA COUNTY LINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CLARKS HILL LAKE
  MISTLETOE STATE PARK
  POLLARDS CORNER 

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

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.