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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT for Candler County, Liberty County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 days
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Candler County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Tattnall County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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 nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 877 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KCHS 122330 FFWCHS GAC179-130100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 729 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 729 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING ACROSS LIBERTY COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATED THAT SOME ROADS WERE BEING CLOSED. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 830 PM. * FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN AND AROUND... GUM BRANCH AND HINESVILLE... FORT STEWART... SUNBURY... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY FOR HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024. LAT...LON 3189 8181 3178 8164 3176 8127 3197 8164 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS52 KCHS 080058
FFWCHS
GAC043-267-080230-
/X.NEW.KCHS.FF.W.0008.040908T0058Z-040908T0230Z/
/0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
858 PM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
CANDLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
* AT 858 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING FROM
REIDSVILLE TO METTER MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN AND AROUND...
MANASSAS AND REIDSVILLE...
COLLINS...
COBBTOWN...
METTER...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW-LYING AREAS AND DITCHES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN
AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.
LAT...LON 3194 8220 3185 8203 3219 8203 3250 8198
3254 8214
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 7:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 7:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 94 min |
| Aug 12, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 31 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.