Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2002, 4:19 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
- May 17, 2002, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Camden County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Bluff, GA | Large trees blown across power lines and lines downed on Dover Bluff Road. |
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 (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KJAX 172019 SVRJAX GAC039-172100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 418 PM EDT FRI MAY 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 418 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF DOVER BLUFF... OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WOODBINE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 500 PM EDT... WAVERLY... DOVER BLUFF... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. $$ LAT...LON 3102 8181 3092 8160 3101 8150 3112 8173 SANDRIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 39 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.