Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, SC
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.
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, 7:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Claxton, GA | Large 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.
- 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
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 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 30 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.