Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 5:27 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 6, 2002, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hilltonia, GA | Trees and 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCHS 062127 SVRCHS GAC251-062215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 527 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SCREVEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 527 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILLHAVEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF SYLVANIA... MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MILLHAVEN. HILLTONIA. DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. VERY LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH THIS STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE INDOORS TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3287 8149 3304 8156 3290 8176 3268 8175 PM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Jenkins | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Jenkins | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Tattnall | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 61 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.