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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, SC

May 2, 2004Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2004, 4:59 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 16 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: May 2, 2004, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chatham County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 946 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCHS 022059
SVRCHS
GAC051-022120-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
459 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 456 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
  WINDS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGDALE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH
  OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BLOOMINGDALE AND POOLER...
  GARDEN CITY...
  MONTEITH...

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON AT 843-747-5046.

ADDITIONAL DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AND AFFECT OTHER
COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3210 8138 3200 8131 3212 8113 3219 8112
      3224 8118

$$

PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins	30 min
May 2, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Liberty	25 min
May 2, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	49 min
May 2, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	46 min
May 2, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Effingham	34 min
May 2, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	40 min
May 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Liberty	33 min
May 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	43 min
May 2, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Chatham	20 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.