Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 6:26 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 6, 2002, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bulloch County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Statesboro, GA | Trees and downed power lines caused power outtages for several hours. |
| Jul 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Denmark, GA | A tree and several large limbs downed some power lines. |
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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 062226 SVRCHS GAC031-062315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 626 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 626 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF HOPEULIKIT TO 5 MILES NORTH OF LEEFIELD...OR FROM 13 MILES SOUTH OF MILLEN TO 9 MILES EAST OF STATESBORO...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... HOPEULIKIT. LEEFIELD. DIME SIZE 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 3263 8189 3248 8154 3225 8149 3242 8191 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, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Jenkins | 29 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.