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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 4:01 PM EST for Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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, 4:01 PM EST (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
829
WFUS52 KCHS 202101
TORCHS
GAC179-202130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
401 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 430 PM EST
* AT 401 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROSSROADS...OR ABOUT 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
MCINTOSH AND ALLENHURST...
RICEBORO AND CROSSROADS...
HALFMOON LANDING...
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 3178 8165 3171 8148 3167 8137 3165 8118
3170 8121 3188 8145
$$
24The 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, 3:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 3:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 4:07 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.