Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 6, 2002, 1:18 AM EST for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 1:18 AM EST (06:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2002, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chatham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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, 1:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bloomingdale, GA | Several trees and large limbs 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
684 WUUS52 KCHS 060618 SVRCHS GAC051-060645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...FOR HIGH WINDS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 117 AM EST WED NOV 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 145 AM EST * AT 116 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGDALE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... BLOOMINGDALE... POOLER... PORT WENTWORTH AND MONTEITH... 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 3210 8138 3203 8132 3213 8112 3223 8118 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 1:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 24 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 |
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.