Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 6:42 PM EDT for Liberty County, Long County, McIntosh 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
- Aug 12, 2004, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 877 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 122242 TORCHS GAC179-183-191-122315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 642 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 642 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COX...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DARIEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... COX... TOWNSEND... EULONIA... JONES... SOUTH NEWPORT... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024. LAT...LON 3154 8174 3141 8160 3167 8120 3184 8137 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 7:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 7:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Candler, Liberty, Tattnall | 26 days |
| Aug 12, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 7:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 94 min |
| Aug 12, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 31 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.