Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT for Jasper County, South Carolina; Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 23, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Effingham County, GA, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
034
WUUS52 KCHS 232329
SVRCHS
GAC103-SCC053-240015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
728 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 725 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM KILDARE TO RINCON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
CLYO AND EBENEZER...
PINELAND...
TARBORO...
TILLMAN.
THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE ACROSS MUCH OF
EFFINGHAM COUNTY.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER NOW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS A TORNADO. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND AVOID WINDOWS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.
LAT...LON 3238 8123 3255 8138 3257 8135 3256 8127
3262 8119 3263 8116 3246 8106 3245 8106
3235 8120
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 84 min | |
| Jun 23, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Effingham | 25 min |
| Jun 23, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Screven | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2004Severe 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.