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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Charleston, SC

June 15, 2004Beaufort County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2004, 7:55 AM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 15, 2004, 7:55 AM EDT (11:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2004, 8:30 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beaufort County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:57 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 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

769 
WFUS52 KCHS 151155
TORCHS
SCC013-151230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
754 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 830 AM EDT

* AT 752 AM EDT...COAST GUARD OFFICIALS REPORT 4 LARGE WATERSPOUTS 
  OVER PORT ROYAL SOUND...MOVING NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THESE WATERSPOUTS
  WILL LIKELY MOVE INLAND AS TORNADOES SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
  DOWLINGWOOD AND BON AIRE...
  PARRIS ISLAND...
  AREAS LONG THE BROAD RIVER...

WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE BECOME TORNADOES. PEOPLE ALONG THE
SHORELINE SHOULD BE ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES. GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS. AS A
LAST RESORT...FIND A LOW SPOT AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.

LAT...LON 3228 8079 3225 8064 3242 8075 3238 8083

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 8:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Beaufort	31 min
Jun 15, 9:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Beaufort	42 min
Jun 15, 10:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Berkeley	75 days
Jun 15, 10:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Charleston	84 days

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.