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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2011, 4:20 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 27, 2011, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2011, 4:54 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Evans County, GA, Tattnall County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 9:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
043 WUUS52 KCHS 272020 SVRCHS GAC031-043-109-267-272115- /O.NEW.KCHS.SV.W.0021.110327T2020Z-110327T2115Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 420 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... SOUTHERN CANDLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... NORTHERN EVANS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... NORTHWESTERN TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COBBTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL... * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... COLLINS...COBBTOWN...REGISTER... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND POWER LINES DIRECTLY TO THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-888-383-2024. && LAT...LON 3237 8186 3221 8181 3217 8219 3234 8225 TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 266DEG 35KT 3222 8218 $$
2 follow-up statements
668 WWUS52 KCHS 272040 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 440 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011 GAC031-043-109-267-272115- /O.CON.KCHS.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110327T2115Z/ EVANS GA-TATTNALL GA-CANDLER GA-BULLOCH GA- 440 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR WEST CENTRAL BULLOCH...SOUTHEASTERN CANDLER...NORTH CENTRAL TATTNALL AND NORTHERN EVANS COUNTIES... AT 438 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR UNDINE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE.... ADABELLE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE...CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. REPORTS CAN ALSO BE SENT THROUGH TWITTER USING #WXREPORT. && LAT...LON 3221 8207 3233 8206 3236 8186 3221 8181 TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 266DEG 35KT 3223 8190 $$
223 WWUS52 KCHS 272054 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 454 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011 GAC031-043-109-267-272103- /O.CAN.KCHS.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110327T2115Z/ EVANS GA-TATTNALL GA-CANDLER GA-BULLOCH GA- 454 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL BULLOCH... SOUTHEASTERN CANDLER...NORTH CENTRAL TATTNALL AND NORTHERN EVANS COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 451 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3221 8207 3233 8206 3236 8186 3221 8181 TIME...MOT...LOC 2053Z 266DEG 35KT 3224 8174 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 8:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch | 42 min |
| Mar 27, 11:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 11:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Mar 27, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Burke | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Screven | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 64 min | |
| Mar 27, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 117 min | |
| Mar 27, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 60 min |
| Mar 27, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 48 min | |
| Mar 27, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Long | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 4:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Chatham | 89 min |
| Mar 27, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 59 min | |
| Mar 27, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Long | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty, Long | 23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.