Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 5:01 PM EDT for Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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
- May 31, 2002, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tattnall County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Glennville, GA | |
| May 31, 5:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Glennville, GA | Power lines were down. |
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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
578 WUUS52 KCHS 312101 SVRCHS GAC267-312130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 500 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 500 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GLENNVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF CLAXTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MIDWAY... GLENVILLE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER NOW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS A TORNADO. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND AVOID WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 3197 8199 3192 8192 3203 8183 3205 8191 ST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty | 38 min |
| May 31, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 45 min |
| May 31, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 27 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.