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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Columbia, SC

June 3, 2002Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 7:19 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2002, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burke County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 2002-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 757 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 2002-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 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
757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1276 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-31 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.

168 
WUUS52 KCAE 032319
SVRCAE
GAC033-040000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 712 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF KEYSVILLE..MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  5 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3302 8221 3316 8207 3344 8243 3325 8261

LCV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.