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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, SC

July 6, 2002Bulloch County, Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 5:46 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2002, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Jenkins County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 062146
SVRCHS
GAC031-165-062215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
545 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN JENKINS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA.
  NORTHWESTERN BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 545 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
  BUTTS TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUTTS...OR FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MILLEN TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF STATESBORO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
RURAL NORTHWESTERN BULLOCH COUNTY
RURAL SOUTHWESTERN JENKINS COUNTY

LARGE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS DANGEROUS LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH THIS LINE...PUT YOUR CAR IN A
GARAGE AND MOVE INDOORS TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...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 3291 8203 3272 8192 3261 8179 3253 8198
          3258 8208 3282 8213

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, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.