Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 11:34 AM EST for Candler County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 11:34 AM EST (16:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Candler County, GA, Tattnall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KCHS 221634
SVRCHS
GAC043-267-221715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1133 AM EST SAT FEB 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CANDLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 1215 PM EST
* AT 1130 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH 10 MILES WEST OF COLLINS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
REIDSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
REIDSVILLE...
COLLINS...
COBBTOWN...
ALINE...
METTER...
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 3222 8241 3209 8226 3197 8213 3220 8201
3228 8203 3241 8195 3255 8207
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 11:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans, Screven | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 12:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 12:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 12:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 62 min |
| Feb 22, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 55 min |
| Feb 22, 12:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.