Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 12:50 PM EST for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 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, 12:50 PM EST (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chatham 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
701
WUUS52 KCHS 221750
SVRCHS
GAC051-221845-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1249 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 145 PM EST
* AT 1245 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS 9 MILES
WEST OF POOLER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHMOND HILL...
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
POOLER AND MEINHARD...
GARDEN CITY...
SAVANNAH AND WHITE BLUFF...
THUNDERBOLT AND SANDFLY...
WILMINGTON ISLAND...
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 3220 8122 3205 8137 3183 8102 3200 8087
3214 8118
$$
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, 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, 12:12 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, 12:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.