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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Charleston, SC

June 3, 2001Bulloch County, Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 8:02 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 3, 2001, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2001, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Jenkins County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 8:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Statesboro, GA	Trees and power lines down countywide.

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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 2740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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.

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 040002
SVRCHS
GAC031-165-040030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
802 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN JENKINS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA.
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 801 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BUTTS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF SWAINSBORO...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 
THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL.

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 3270 8222 3254 8220 3253 8184 3276 8187

EVT

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 2:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
230 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001

MAY HAVE ISOLD CONVECTION LTR THIS AFTN. WILL LV MENTION OF POPS OUT
OF FCST TNGT...THINKING THAT ANY ISOLD CONVECTION WHICH DVLPS WILL
DMNSH RPDLY WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HTG...AS WK FNTL BNDRY RMNS TO THE
N. MOCLR SKIES TNGT WITH LOWS FM THE UPR 60S WELL INLAND TO THE LWR
AND MID 70S ON THE IMMEDIATE CST. WM TEMPS EXPECTED FOR MON WITH MID
90S INLAND TO ARND 90 ON THE CST...AND SW WINDS...EXCEPT S ALG CST
AS A SEABREEZE DVLPS FOR MON...WITH WEAKER PRES GRAD. WDLY SCT
CONVECTION ANTICIPATED MON AFTN WITH ANY TSRA/SHRA DMNSHG RPDLY WITH
LOSS OF DAYTIME HTG. WILL NOT MENTION POPS FOR THE 3RD PD OR MON
NGT. MODELS SHOW AMS MSTR INCRG FM THE SW AS A MDT LOW LVL FLOW
DVLPS ACRS THE CNTRL GLFMX. THIS MSTR GRDLY WORKS INTO THE RGN FM
THE SW...ARND THE ERN PERIPHERY THE UPR RDG...MAINLY ON TUE. WILL
HAVE CHC POPS ACRS WRN GA PART FA FOR TUE AFTN AND EVE...OTRW SLGT
CHC POPS DURG THE AFTN AND EVE FOR RMNDR. WILL HAVE CHC AFTN/EVE
POPS ACRS ENTIRE FA FOR WED AND THU WITH AMPLE AMS MSTR IN PLACE AND
INFLUENCE FM SERIES OF UPR IMPLS. ALSO...ADD LOW LVL FORCING FOR THU
WITH H8 JET MOVG ACRS REGION LATE WED NGT THRU THU AND CONVERGENCE
AHD OF APCHG CDFNT. CDFNT MOVES THRU THU NGT WITH DRIER AIR
FILTERING ACRS RGN. WILL NOT HAVE POPS IN FCST FRI THRU SUN ALG WITH
COOLER TEMPS...WITH UPR TROF ACRS THE ERN STS. HIGHS SHUD BE IN THE
80S WITH LOWS MOSTLY IN THE 60S DURG THIS TIME FRAME.

MARINE...SW-S WINDS 15 KT OR LESS AND SEAS 4 FT OR LESS THROUGH TUE
AS HIGH PRES RIDGE RMNS JUST S OF WATERS. NXT FNT APCHS WED WITH LOW
LVL JET MOVG ACRS WATERS WED NGT INTO THU. WILL HAVE SCA PSBLTYS
MENTIONED IN EXTDD WED NGT THRU THU NGT. FNT WILL MOVE ACRS WATERS
THU NGT WITH NW-N FLOW TO ENSUE.

FCSTID = 22
CHS   71  93  72  90 /   5  20   5  20
SAV   70  94  71  90 />  10  20  10  20
CHL   75  93  72  90 /   5  20   5  20
NBC   71  93  72  90 /   5  20   5  20
RBW   70  94  70  91 /   5  20  10  20

.CHS...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.

JAC/MJR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan	32 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.