Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 3:13 AM EDT for Beaufort County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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, 3:13 AM EDT (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Beaufort County, SC, 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
296
WFUS52 KCHS 070713
TORCHS
SCC013-053-070745-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0027.040907T0713Z-040907T0745Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
313 AM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 345 AM EDT
* AT 311 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
PRITCHARDVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND...
MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
PRITCHARDVILLE AND PRITCHARD...
JASPER...
SWITZERLAND...
TILLMAN...
TARBORO...
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 3220 8101 3223 8095 3224 8090 3262 8103
3257 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, 2:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 35 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 |
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.