Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 5:22 PM EDT for Bryan County, Evans County, Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bryan County, GA, Evans County, GA, Liberty County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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, 5:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Daisy, GA | Large limbs and power lines were down. |
| May 31, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Groveland, GA | Several trees and numerous limbs 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.
393
WUUS52 KCHS 312122
SVRCHS
GAC029-109-179-312200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
522 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
SOUTHEASTERN EVANS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.
* AT 522 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
SOUTH OF DAISY...TO NEAR GROVELAND TO JUST WEST OF WILLIE.
THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
GROVELAND.
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.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...
WHICH MAY FLOOD ROADS...DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD
PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
$$
LAT...LON 3208 8187 3204 8176 3199 8175 3218 8164
3211 8184
STThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 29 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 |
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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.