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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 5:09 AM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 21 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, 5:09 AM EDT (09:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 5:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allendale 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 7, 4:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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.
209 WFUS52 KCHS 070909 TORCHS SCC005-070930- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0029.040907T0909Z-040907T0930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 509 AM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ALLENDALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 530 AM EDT * AT 505 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ALLENDALE......MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... APPLETON... SEIGLING... BALDOCK... 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 3294 8140 3301 8120 3318 8127 3320 8149 $$
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, 3:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 3:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 5:37 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.