Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 6, 2004, 5:13 PM EST for Bryan County, Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 6, 2004, 5:13 PM EST (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2004, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bryan County, GA, Effingham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KCHS 062213
SVRCHS
GAC029-103-062245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
513 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 545 PM EST
* AT 508 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS OVER PEMBROKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
LANIER AND PEMBROKE...
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REMAIN ALERT FOR
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY.
LAT...LON 3215 8168 3205 8160 3221 8123 3238 8123
3222 8146
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 3:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Evans, Tattnall | 12 min |
| Feb 6, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2004Every severe thunderstorm 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.