Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 9:14 PM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 9:14 PM EDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Long County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
373
WFUS52 KCHS 060114
TORCHS
GAC183-060200-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0003.040906T0114Z-040906T0200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
914 PM EDT SUN SEP 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
* AT 912 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES EAST OF
LUDOWICI...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINESVILLE...MOVING WEST
AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
LUDOWICI...
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 3164 8178 3167 8179 3170 8177 3172 8177
3183 8173 3183 8172 3176 8163 3170 8149
3159 8156
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 8:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 8:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 9:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 10:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 10:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 56 min |
| Sep 5, 11:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 11:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 31 min |
| Sep 6, 12:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 28 min |
| Sep 6, 2:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 35 min |
| Sep 6, 3:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 4:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 32 min |
| Sep 6, 7:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 31 min |
| Sep 6, 8:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty | 26 min |
| Sep 6, 10:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 10:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 34 min |
| Sep 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 46 min |
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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.