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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 8:10 PM EST for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 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
- Mar 19, 2003, 8:10 PM EST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Long County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1922 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCHS 200110 SVRCHS GAC183-200215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 809 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 915 PM EST * AT 804 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 15 MILES WEST OF DONALD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF BAXLEY... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DONALD... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3179 8196 3168 8184 3177 8169 3200 8182 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 9:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 10:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 10:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 27 min |
| Mar 20, 1:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 2:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 2:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 2:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 2:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 2:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 59 min |
| Mar 20, 2:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 2:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 3:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 3:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 29 min |
| Mar 20, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.