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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 9:27 PM EST for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 9:27 PM EST (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bryan 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
371 WUUS52 KCHS 200227 SVRCHS GAC029-200300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 926 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 1000 PM EST * AT 923 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KELLER...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... KELLER... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3181 8129 3173 8113 3183 8107 3193 8134 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 65 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.