Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 7:59 PM EDT for Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bryan County, GA, Chatham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 3311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 122359 TORCHS GAC029-051-130030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 759 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BRYAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 759 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT MCALLISTER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... FORT MCALLISTER... MONTGOMERY AND BEAULIEU... WINDSOR FOREST AND WHITE BLUFF... THUNDERBOLT AND RIVERSIDE... SAVANNAH... 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 3183 8127 3178 8106 3207 8098 3211 8113 $$
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, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 33 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 |
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.