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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 7:29 AM EDT for 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
- Sep 6, 2004, 7:29 AM EDT (11:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chatham County, GA
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 6, 4:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
761 WFUS52 KCHS 061129 TORCHS GAC051-061200- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0014.040906T1129Z-040906T1200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 729 AM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 800 AM EDT * AT 726 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILMINGTON ISLAND...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... WILMINGTON ISLAND AND RIVERSIDE... TYBEE ISLAND... ISLE OF HOPE... THUNDERBOLT... 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 3186 8084 3192 8079 3206 8100 3197 8107 $$
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, 11:38 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, 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.