Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 2:41 PM EST for Bulloch County, Candler County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 20, 2003, 2:41 PM EST (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 8:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 4929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -605 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 461 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 201941 TORCHS GAC031-043-202015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 241 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CANDLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 315 PM EST * AT 241 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF PORTAL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SWAINSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... PORTAL... 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. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3255 8234 3241 8221 3257 8176 3263 8199 $$ PM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 9:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 10:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 10:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 27 min |
| Mar 20, 1:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 2:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 2:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 2:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 2:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 2:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 59 min |
| Mar 20, 2:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 3:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 3:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 29 min |
| Mar 20, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 23 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.