Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 3:17 PM EST for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 3:17 PM EST (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 43 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), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
019
WFUS52 KCHS 202017
TORCHS
GAC251-202100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
316 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 400 PM EST
* AT 316 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODCLIFF...OR ABOUT 12
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MILLEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
WOODCLIFF...
ALTMAN AND SYLVANIA...
HUNTERS...
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 3269 8187 3256 8169 3262 8144 3292 8154
3281 8175
$$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, 2:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 44 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.