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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Charleston, SC

September 5, 2004McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 8:51 PM EDT for McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
Sep 5, 2004, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McIntosh County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 5, 8:35 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2004-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 498 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2004-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

580 
WFUS52 KCHS 060051
TORCHS
GAC191-060115-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0002.040906T0051Z-040906T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
851 PM EDT SUN SEP 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 847 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SHELLMAN BLUFF...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  DARIEN...MOVING WEST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  SHELLMAN BLUFF...
  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 3165 8149 3168 8150 3169 8149 3169 8149
      3164 8144 3166 8128 3165 8126 3163 8124
      3163 8123 3160 8122 3155 8128

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 8:38 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSLiberty37 min
Sep 5, 9:14 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSLong46 min
Sep 5, 9:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSLiberty25 min
Sep 5, 9:50 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSMcIntosh25 min
Sep 5, 10:14 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSLong31 min
Sep 5, 10:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSMcIntosh56 min
Sep 5, 11:38 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSLiberty, McIntosh37 min
Sep 5, 11:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSChatham31 min
Sep 6, 12:32 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSChatham28 min
Sep 6, 2:40 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSChatham35 min
Sep 6, 3:18 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBryan42 min
Sep 6, 4:13 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBulloch, Candler32 min
Sep 6, 7:29 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSChatham31 min
Sep 6, 8:49 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSLiberty26 min
Sep 6, 10:15 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBryan30 min
Sep 6, 10:56 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSChatham34 min
Sep 6, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSChatham46 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.