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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Columbia, SC

August 10, 2001Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2001, 9:14 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 2001, 9:14 PM EDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2001, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 9:37 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EGirard, GAPost Office reported trees down on Sweetwater road.

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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 00:00Z on 2001-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3215 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 00:00Z on 2001-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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.

559 
WUUS52 KCAE 110114
SVRCAE
GAC033-110145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
914 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    EASTERN BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT.

* AT 910 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GIRARD...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF
  WAYNESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

LAT...LON 3312 8177 3294 8173 3304 8156 3309 8160

BC/CDL

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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.