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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC

February 6, 2004Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2004, 3:49 PM EST for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2004, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jenkins County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 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

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The text

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

821 
WFUS52 KCHS 062049
TORCHS
GAC165-062115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
349 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JENKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EST

* AT 349 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HERNDON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF
  MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
  HERNDON...BIRDSVILLE...ROGERS AND LAWTON.  

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

TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY
BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3279 8227 3266 8212 3291 8178 3307 8200

$$

PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 6, 4:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Evans, Tattnall	12 min
Feb 6, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Effingham	32 min
Feb 6, 5:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Chatham	41 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.