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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Columbia, SC

April 3, 2002Columbia County, McDuffie County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2002, 4:18 PM EST for Columbia County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2002, 4:18 PM EST (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2002, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, GA, McDuffie County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 3, 4:50 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Appling, GA	Spotter reported several trees down in Appling.
Apr 3, 4:50 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Appling, GA	Spotter reported 3/4 inch hail in Appling.

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
Apr 3, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 032118
SVRCAE
GAC073-189-032200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
416 PM EST WED APR 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    NORTHERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
    COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EST.

* AT 405 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES WEST OF EVANS..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
    EVANS.
    APPLING. 

LAT...LON 3370 8252 3354 8260 3342 8225 3356 8206

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.