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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 20, 2002Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2002, 3:07 PM EDT for Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 20, 2002, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2002, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Charlton County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 20, 3:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	St George, GA	Large trees snapped and down across power lines.

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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 2866 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

519 
WUUS52 KJAX 201907
SVRJAX
GAC049-201945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
306 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CHARLTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 306 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES WEST
  OF ST. GEORGE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF CALLAHAN...MOVING SOUTH
  AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF
  CHARLTON COUNTY.

LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

$$


SHASHY

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 20, 2:18 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:18 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
218 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002

CURRENTLY...SURFACE TROUGH FROM THE CAROLINAS TO ACROSS SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA. SHORT WAVE TROUGH DROPPING SOUTHEAST
ACROSS CENTRAL GA. THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY ERUPTING ALONG I-10 IN NORTH
FLORIDA.

MODELS/ZFP...UNMODIFIED MORNING SOUNDINGS ALREADY SHOWED CAPE OF
4100+J AND LIFTED INDEX -8 WITH CAP OF 3 DEGREES. AFTER CAP IS BROKEN
SHOULD SEE A ROUND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE
AFTERNOON. MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE THE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING (FROM HIGH CAPE AND PW) AND POSSIBLE PULSE SEVERE STORMS.
SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUES OVER THE REGION WITH SHORT WAVE DROPPING
SOUTHEAST THRU SUNDAY...AND CLOSING OFF ACROSS GEORGIA AND ALABAMA.
MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THERE WILL BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT
MOISTURE AND LIFT TO SEE NUMEROUS MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS AT
LEAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WITH MEAN 1000-500 MB WIND FLOW
GENERALLY WEST OR SOUTHWEST...WILL SEE ACTIVITY FIRST FORM NEAR GULF
COAST AND SPREAD EAST...WITH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY NEAR EAST COAST IN
THE LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVE. HEAT INDICES ARE RUNNING 105 TO
110 DEGREES TODAY AND WILL SEE AT LEAST 105 SUNDAY. WILL HEADLINE
THIS.

PRELIM
AMG TT 075/093 072/094 074 08464
SSI TT 078/090 077/092 076 08464
JAX TT 076/093 073/093 075 08464
SGJ TT 077/090 075/093 077 08464
GNV TT 074/093 073/093 074 08363
OCF TT 074/092 074/093 074 08353=

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

PP

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 12:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-202200-

NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1215 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002

...HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 103 AND 108 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON...
...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE...

TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB TO BETWEEN 94 TO 98 DEGREES IN MOST INLAND
LOCATIONS...RESULTING IN HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 103 AND 108 DEGREES
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. IF ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN SHADED AREAS AND DRINK PLENTY
OF NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. A
FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE FROM MID-AFTERNOON
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL AND
WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH. ALL STORMS WILL CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO
SELF-ACTIVATE AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.

CARROLL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	47 min
Jul 20, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley	40 min
Jul 20, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Glynn	41 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.