Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2001, 1:00 AM EST for Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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
- Mar 4, 2001, 1:00 AM EST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2001, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Effingham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 1:10 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kildare, GA | Few trees down. |
| Mar 4, 1:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Springfield, GA | Several trees 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KCHS 040602
SVRCHS
GAC103-040645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
100 AM EST SUN MAR 4 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
* UNTIL 145 AM EST.
* AT 100 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
MILBURY SC TO DENMARK GA...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
WIND IN EXCESS 60 MPH 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 3228 8142 3222 8141 3215 8138 <3228 8120
3253 8127 3255 8132 3257 8139 3247 8152
WOODWORTH
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long | 52 min |
| Mar 4, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham, Effingham | 52 min |
| Mar 4, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans, Screven | 30 min |
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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.