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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, SC

August 24, 2001Evans County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT for Evans County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
Aug 24, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Evans County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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
Aug 24, 7:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EClaxton, GALarge limbs and power lines down.

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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 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
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-281 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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.

833 
WUUS52 KCHS 242316
SVRCHS
GAC109-179-183-267-242345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN EVANS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
  WESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
  LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
  TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 715 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLLINS TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT
  STEWART...OR FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF REIDSVILLE TO 5 MILES WEST 
OF   RICHMOND HILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3191 8223 3155 8167 3186 8138 3224 8218

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven30 min
Aug 24, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSEffingham35 min
Aug 24, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSChatham23 min
Aug 24, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSLiberty, Long, Tattnall30 min

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.