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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Charleston, SC

June 16, 2003Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2003, 7:40 PM EDT for Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 16, 2003, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Long County, GA, Tattnall County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1416 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

939 
WUUS52 KCHS 162340
SVRCHS
GAC183-267-170030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
739 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
  TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 736 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
  WINDS 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDWAY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF
  CLAXTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  MIDWAY...
  GLENNVILLE AND DONALD...

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3188 8208 3175 8190 3186 8175 3198 8180
          3205 8189

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBryan36 min
Jun 16, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBryan, Liberty35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.