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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Charleston, SC

November 7, 1995Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1995, 6:19 PM EST for Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 7, 1995, 6:19 PM EST (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1995, 7:15 PM EST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bryan County, GA, Chatham County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 363 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
363 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
419 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.

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 072320
TORCHS
GAC029-051-179-183-080015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
619 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BRYAN COUNTY...CHATHAM COUNTY...LIBERTY COUNTY...LONG COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 620 PM...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SEVERAL TORNADOES
MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A PROBABLE TORNADO WAS WEST OF HINESVILLE
WITH ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE WESTERN CORNER OF LONG COUNTY NEAR
DONALD. OTHER TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WARNED AREA INCLUDING
SAVANNAH AND VICINITY.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 3:23 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSEvans, Tattnall52 min
Nov 7, 3:42 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBryan33 min
Nov 7, 4:25 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSChatham50 min
Nov 7, 5:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSLong65 min
Nov 7, 5:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBryan, Chatham, Liberty65 min
Nov 7, 5:27 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBryan, Liberty48 min
Nov 7, 6:03 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSMcIntosh57 min
Nov 7, 6:19 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSLiberty, Long56 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.