Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 56, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 1:25 AM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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 27, 2004, 1:25 AM EDT (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2004, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bulloch County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 27, 12:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KCHS 270525
TORCHS
GAC031-270615-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0040.040927T0525Z-040927T0615Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
125 AM EDT MON SEP 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 215 AM EDT
* AT 124 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LEEFIELD...
OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF STATESBORO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
LEEFIELD AND STILSON...
BROOKLET...
STATESBORO...
HOPEULIKIT...
PORTAL...
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 3229 8154 3245 8153 3263 8183 3254 8199
3241 8178
$$
JPCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 11:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 37 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 |
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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.