Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 6, 2002, 1:06 AM EST for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 6, 2002, 1:06 AM EST (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2002, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bryan County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 1:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ellabell, GA | Several trees 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 10:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
157
WUUS52 KCHS 060606
SVRCHS
GAC029-060630-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
105 AM EST WED NOV 6 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 130 AM EST
* AT 101 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELLABELL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF
HINESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
LETFORD...
ELLABELL...
FORT STEWART MILITARY RESERVATION...
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REMAIN ALERT FOR
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY.
LAT...LON 3204 8162 3198 8159 3196 8153 3203 8136
3217 8148
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 1:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 27 min |
| Nov 6, 4:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 46 min |
| Nov 6, 5:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 35 min |
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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.