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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, SC

February 26, 2004Bulloch County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2004, 3:57 AM EST for Bulloch 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
Feb 26, 2004, 3:57 AM EST (08:57 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 2004, 4:30 AM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bulloch County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2004-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2004-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
286 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.

951 
WUUS52 KCHS 260857
SVRCHS
GAC031-260930-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
357 AM EST THU FEB 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 AM EST

* AT 356 AM EST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH 2 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF DENMARK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF STATESBORO...MOVING NORTH
  AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE NEAR THE
  DENMARK AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  DENMARK...
  BROOKLET AND GEORGIA SOUTHERN...
  STATESBORO AND LEEFIELD...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR VERY LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT SAFE. GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3229 8181 3227 8171 3247 8158 3256 8180

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 4:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSScreven44 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.