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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Charleston, SC

September 26, 2004Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2004, 11:08 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 26, 2004, 11:08 PM EDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 2004, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chatham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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 26, 4:25 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 270309
TORCHS
GAC051-270345-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0039.040927T0308Z-040927T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1108 PM EDT SUN SEP 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 1108 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WILMINGTON
  ISLAND...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTHWEST
  AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  SKIDAWAY ISLAND AND WILMINGTON ISLAND...
  ISLE OF HOPE AND SANDFLY...
  SAVANNAH...
  GARDEN CITY...
  PORT WENTWORTH AND MONTEITH...

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.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.

LAT...LON 3182 8093 3197 8081 3207 8105 3220 8118
      3201 8129

$$

JPC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 27, 1:25 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	50 min
Sep 27, 2:10 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	35 min
Sep 27, 2:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	37 min
Sep 27, 5:18 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan	27 min
Sep 27, 5:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	49 min
Sep 27, 6:46 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	44 min
Sep 27, 10:10 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jenkins	20 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.