Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 12:12 PM EST for Liberty County, Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 12:12 PM EST (17:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Liberty County, GA, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
569 WUUS52 KCHS 221712 SVRCHS GAC179-183-221800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1211 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 100 PM EST * AT 1205 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES NORTH OF DONALD TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DONALD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTH OF CLAXTON TO 13 MILES NORTH OF JESUP...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DONALD... GUM BRANCH... HINESVILLE... MCINTOSH AND FORT STEWART... 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 3200 8186 3170 8202 3183 8145 3206 8167 $$ 24
The 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, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Candler, Tattnall | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans, Screven | 24 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.