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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Columbia, SC

August 24, 2001Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2001, 5:53 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 24, 2001, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 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), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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, 6:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Sardis, GA	EPD reported large limbs and powerlines down in the Sardis 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 242154
SVRCAE
GAC033-242230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
553 PM EDT FRI AUG 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SARDIS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
    SARDIS.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. DIME 
SIZED HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3312 8182 3297 8195 3275 8162 3293 8146

TTH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lincoln	36 min
Aug 24, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Every 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.