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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Columbia, SC

May 2, 2003Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 9:19 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 2003, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2003-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3228 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2003-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
7.0

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The text

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

043 
WUUS52 KCAE 030119
SVRCAE
GAC033-030215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
917 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT.

* AT 915 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO..MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  KEYSVILLE.
  VIDETTE.
  WAYNESBORO.
  SARDIS.


LAT...LON 3328 8224 3285 8231 3285 8215 3299 8164
          3309 8160 3322 8187

TTH/CDL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcDuffie45 min
May 2, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia, Richmond46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.