Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2003, 7:42 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2003, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
794 WFUS52 KCHS 012342 TORCHS GAC165-251-020030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 743 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JENKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 743 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCARBORO...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... SCARBORO AND ROCKY FORD... WOODCLIFF... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3271 8196 3264 8180 3288 8167 3292 8186 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 12:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 22 min |
| Jul 1, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.