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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Charleston, SC

July 6, 2002Bryan County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 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, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Bryan County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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, 8:13 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Pembroke, GA	Several trees were down on state road 119.

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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1779 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 070000
SVRCHS
GAC029-070100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 800 PM EDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 5
  MILES NORTH OF LANIER TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEMBROKE...OR FROM 6
  MILES NORTHEAST OF PEMBROKE TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEMBROKE...    
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME-SIZED     
  HAIL IN THE PEMBROKE AREA AT 755 PM.

ADDITIONAL DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

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 3221 8156 3211 8173 3197 8157 3195 8141
          3178 8124 3188 8123 3212 8141

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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.