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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 11:38 PM EDT for Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 11:38 PM EDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Liberty County, GA, McIntosh County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 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
- 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.
159 WFUS52 KCHS 060338 TORCHS GAC179-191-060415- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0008.040906T0338Z-040906T0415Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1138 PM EDT SUN SEP 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT * AT 1135 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF SHELLMAN BLUFF...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF DARIEN...MOVING WEST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... VALONA... SHELLMAN BLUFF AND PINE HARBOR... SOUTH NEWPORT AND EULONIA... RETREAT... 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 3152 8151 3141 8121 3163 8112 3174 8142 $$
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, 9:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 46 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, 11:59 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 |
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.