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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC

March 16, 1996Bulloch County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1996, 7:33 PM EST for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 1996, 7:33 PM EST (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 1996, 8:30 PM EST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Bulloch County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 615 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
7.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 170036
TORCHS
GAC031-170130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
733 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BULLOCH COUNTY
 
A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL MOVE ACROSS
BULLOCH COUNTY BETWEEN I-16 AND STATESBORO BETWEEN 745 PM AND 815 PM.
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN SOUTHERN CANDLER COUNTY NEAR
1-16 AND THE TOWN OF ALINE.
 
ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTH PORTION OF BULLOCH
COUNTY NORTH THE TOWN OF PORTAL.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT NEAR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 8:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven59 min
Mar 17, 9:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSJenkins50 min
Mar 17, 9:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven40 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.