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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Charleston, SC

July 1, 2003Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2003, 9:53 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 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, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2003, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Screven County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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.

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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

588 
WFUS52 KCHS 020153
TORCHS
GAC251-020300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
953 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 953 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODCLIFF...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
  WOODCLIFF...
  ALTMAN...
  SYLVANIA...

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.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

LAT...LON 3273 8185 3268 8184 3262 8177 3267 8141
          3291 8161

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 10:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Screven	36 min
Jul 1, 10:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	33 min
Jul 1, 11:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Screven	24 min
Jul 1, 11:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	33 min

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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.