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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Charleston, SC

June 5, 1995McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 7:45 AM EDT for McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 7:45 AM EDT (11:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 8:30 AM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County McIntosh County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 274 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 051146
TORCHS
GAC191-051230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
745 AM EDT MON JUN 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...MCINTOSH COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN MCINTOSH COUNTY
MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS JUST WEST OF I-95 NEAR
THE TOWN OF TOWNSEND.
 
 
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 INTERIORP 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
Jun 5, 6:06 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSMcIntosh69 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.