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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC

March 16, 1996Bulloch County, Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1996, 5:54 PM EST for Bulloch County, Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 1996, 5:54 PM EST (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1996, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Jenkins County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 16, 6:35 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Butts, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 162255
TORCHS
GAC031-165-170000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
554 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BULLOCH COUNTY...JENKINS COUNTY
 
A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH A PROBABLE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
SOUTHWEST PORTION OF JENKINS COUNTY AND
INTO NORTHWEST BULLOCH COUNTY.  THE TOWN OF BUTTS IN JENKINS COUNTY TO
THE SOUTHEAST OF MILLEN...AND THE TOWN OF PORTAL IN BULLOCH COUNTY ARE
IN THE LINE OF THIS STORM BEFORE 630 PM.  STATESBORO MAY ALSO BE IN THIS
STORM/S PATH.
 
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 RE6INFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 8:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	56 min
Mar 15, 9:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	57 min
Mar 16, 6:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	69 min
Mar 16, 6:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Candler	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.