Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 6, 2002, 5:10 AM EST for Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Nov 6, 2002, 5:10 AM EST (10:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2002, 5:45 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Liberty County, GA, McIntosh County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 5:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Jones, GA | Several trees and large limbs were down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
211 WFUS52 KCHS 061010 TORCHS GAC179-191-061045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 508 AM EST WED NOV 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND EASTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... NORTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 545 AM EST * AT 508 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF JONES...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF LUDOWICI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... JONES... RETREAT. RICEBORO... TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 1:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 24 min |
| Nov 6, 1:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 27 min |
| Nov 6, 4:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 46 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.