Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 50, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 3:14 PM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hampton 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, 11:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
000
WFUS52 KCHS 071914
TORCHS
SCC049-071945-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0034.040907T1914Z-040907T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
314 PM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HAMPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
* AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
VARNVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER HAMPTON...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
VARNVILLE AND ALMEDA...
HAMPTON...
CROCKETVILLE AND BRUNSON...
MILEY...
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 3275 8123 3274 8102 3296 8101 3302 8107
3296 8121
$$
JRThe 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, 11:13 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, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 14 min |
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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.