Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2004, 5:12 PM EDT for Bryan County, Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bryan County, GA, Liberty 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551
WUUS52 KCHS 022112
SVRCHS
GAC029-179-022145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
512 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 511 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS 4 MILES WEST OF BELFAST...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
RICHMOND HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
RICEBORO...
BELFAST AND SUNBURY...
KELLER AND LIMERICK...
RICHMOND HILL...
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 3186 8151 3170 8141 3184 8112 3190 8125
3196 8132
$$
PMThe 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, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 16 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.