Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2011, 4:40 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 80 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 14, 2011, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Burke County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
588
WUUS52 KCAE 142040
SVRCAE
GAC033-142200-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0087.110514T2040Z-110514T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
440 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 436 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MIDVILLE TO 11 MILES WEST OF MIDVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WAYNESBORO...SARDIS
AND MIDVILLE
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOLL FREE 1 877 6 3
3...6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 3282 8231 3285 8232 3291 8228 3308 8230
3320 8224 3324 8188 3295 8170 3291 8177
3295 8186 3292 8196 3291 8208 3288 8212
3282 8214 3281 8216 3280 8221
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 264DEG 24KT 3309 8260 3280 8240
$$1 follow-up statement
061
WWUS52 KCAE 142125
SVSCAE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
525 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011
GAC033-142200-
/O.CON.KCAE.SV.W.0087.000000T0000Z-110514T2200Z/
BURKE GA-
525 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
FOR BURKE COUNTY...
AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO...TO
10 MILES SOUTH OF WAYNESBORO...TO 8 MILES WEST OF MILLEN...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED
TO...SARDIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1...8 7
7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
&&
LAT...LON 3292 8196 3292 8206 3296 8212 3309 8229
3320 8224 3324 8188 3295 8170 3291 8177
3295 8186
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 264DEG 24KT 3318 8228 3294 8204
3278 8208
$$Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011
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.