Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2001, 3:24 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia; McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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
- Aug 24, 2001, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, GA, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lincolnton, GA | Sheriff reported trees down on Tabernacle Church road near Midway. |
| Aug 24, 3:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lincolnton, GA | Post Office reported trees down on Lewis Family road. |
| Aug 24, 3:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Parksville, SC | Corp of Engineers reported trees down on a home on the south shore of Clarks Hill Lake. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS52 KCAE 241924
SVRCAE
GAC181-SCC065-242000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
324 PM EDT FRI AUG 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT.
* AT 318 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLNTON...MOVING SOUTH AT
20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LINCOLNTON.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL.
CDLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.