Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 11:13 AM EDT for Berkeley County, Charleston 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, 11:13 AM EDT (15:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 10 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
- 2597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
132 WFUS52 KCHS 071513 TORCHS SCC015-019-071545- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0032.040907T1513Z-040907T1545Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1113 AM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 1145 AM EDT * AT 1110 AM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR NORTHWOODS MALL...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... GOOSE CREEK... NORTHWOODS MALL... DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED. 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 8008 3295 8005 3302 7996 3304 8011 $$
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, 5:09 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, 11:39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.