Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 2:40 AM EDT for Jasper County, South Carolina; Chatham County, Georgia. 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
- Sep 7, 2004, 2:40 AM EDT (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chatham County, GA, Jasper 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, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
412 WFUS52 KCHS 070640 TORCHS GAC051-SCC053-070715- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0026.040907T0640Z-040907T0715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 240 AM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 315 AM EDT * AT 238 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WILMINGTON ISLAND...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... SKIDAWAY ISLAND... WILMINGTON ISLAND AND RIVERSIDE... THUNDERBOLT... SAVANNAH... 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 3185 8102 3192 8083 3222 8101 3216 8118 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 39 min |
| Sep 7, 12:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 47 min |
| Sep 7, 2:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 3:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 3:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 5:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 21 min |
| Sep 7, 5:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 23 min |
| Sep 7, 7:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 30 min |
| Sep 7, 11:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 11:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 90 min | |
| Sep 7, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Hampton | 31 min |
| Sep 7, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 14 min |
| Sep 6, 9:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Candler, Evans, Long, Tattnall | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Candler, Tattnall | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 29 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.