Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 9:35 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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, 9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jenkins County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
692 WUUS52 KCHS 030135 SVRCHS GAC165-030215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 934 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JENKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 934 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF HERNDON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... HERNDON... PERKINS... MILLEN AND EMMALANE... SCARBORO... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3307 8224 3292 8236 3265 8191 3283 8180 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 2, 5:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 5:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 515 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 PUBLIC...ISSUED ZONE UPDATE TO PUT IN CHANCE POPS TONIGHT. NO OTHER CHANGES. .CHS... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. AUSTIN
Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 6:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AMZ330-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>051- 030015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 610 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SOUTH CAROLINA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. MOVEMENT WILL BE TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CAROLINA COULD CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .RIVER FLOODING...A RIVER FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE LOWER SANTEE RIVER AT JAMESTOWN. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENT FOR MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .RIVER FLOODING...RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON THE LOWER SANTEE RIVER AT JAMESTOWN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING. AUSTIN
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.