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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Columbia, SC

June 30, 2002Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2002, 3:49 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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
Jun 30, 2002, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 30, 4:00 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EWaynesboro, GASheriff reported a couple of trees down in Waynesboro.

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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 2002-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2466 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2002-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
2466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

968 
WUUS52 KCAE 301949
SVRCAE
GAC033-302045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
348 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT.

* AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WAYNESBORO..MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.

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

WAYNESBORO

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH.

LAT...LON 3302 8182 3320 8185 3316 8238 3292 8233

LCV

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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.