Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 6:31 PM EDT for Charleston County, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC
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, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 1111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
991 WFUS52 KCHS 062231 TORCHS SCC019-029-062315- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0021.040906T2231Z-040906T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 631 PM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF SEABROOK ISLAND...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF EDISTO BEACH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... SEABROOK ISLAND... EDISTO ISLAND AND ROCKVILLE... WADMALAW ISLAND... YONGES ISLAND... 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 3236 8026 3243 8006 3273 8018 3262 8042 $$ EMLAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 9:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 56 min | |
| Sep 6, 8:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 61 min | |
| Sep 6, 8:19 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 56 min | |
| Sep 6, 9:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 29 min |
| Sep 6, 9:17 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 58 min | |
| Sep 6, 10:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 34 min |
| Sep 6, 11:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 41 min | |
| Sep 6, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 30 min | |
| Sep 6, 12:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton | 40 min |
| Sep 6, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 95 min | |
| Sep 6, 2:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 28 min |
| Sep 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 54 min | |
| Sep 6, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 35 min |
| Sep 6, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 93 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.