Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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 21, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 20:48 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 21, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Nevils, GA | Several trees and power lines were down. |
| Jul 21, 5:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Register, GA | Numerous 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
Jacksonville, FL (KNIP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
858 WUUS52 KCHS 212045 SVRCHS GAC031-212130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 445 PM EDT SUN JUL 21 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 445 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DENMARK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STATESBORO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GEORGIA SOUTHERN. STATESBORO. REGISTER. HOPEULIKIT. PORTAL. DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Candler | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 48 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.