Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 8:49 AM EDT for Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 8:49 AM EDT (12:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
790 WFUS52 KCHS 061249 TORCHS GAC179-061315- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0015.040906T1249Z-040906T1315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 849 AM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 915 AM EDT * AT 846 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STEWART...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... FORT STEWART... LIMERICK... FLEMING... 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 3179 8140 3183 8133 3195 8150 3188 8158 $$
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, 7:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 31 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.