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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 467

June 22, 200170 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT for 70 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 90 counties

Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Jeff Davis42 min
Jun 22, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry, Saluda36 min
Jun 22, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Richland29 min
Jun 22, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken23 min
Jun 22, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland35 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 416 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 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
416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow and 95 more5 hr
Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBanks, Franklin, Hart, Stephens6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.