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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Columbia, SC

June 3, 2002Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 6:17 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
Jun 3, 2002, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 6:22 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EWaynesboro, GAEOC reported trees down on a mobile home.

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2002-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 857 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2002-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
857 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 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

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

999 
WUUS52 KCAE 032217
SVRCAE
GAC033-032300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
616 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BURKE COUNTY..MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...        
  EASTERN BURKE

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD 
ROADS...DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT 
CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF 
THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.

LCV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke41 min
Jun 3, 7:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichmond37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.