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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC

April 3, 1998Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:01 PM EST for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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: Apr 3, 1998, 4:01 PM EST (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1998, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Screven County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 3, 4:25 PM EST	Hail 0.88	Sylvania, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 3, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

946 
WFUS1 KCHS 032102 RRA
TORCHS
GAC251-032145-

BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
401 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EST

* AT 400 PM EST... AREA FIRE DEPARTMENT INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR   MILLEN... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SCARBORO AT 405 PM EST
  SYLVANIA AT 420 PM EST

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS
NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

TJR/SLB


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 3:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	49 min
Apr 3, 3:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jenkins	30 min
Apr 3, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	63 min
Apr 3, 6:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.