Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 58, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 2:38 AM EDT for Screven 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 27, 2004, 2:38 AM EDT (06:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2004, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 270638 TORCHS GAC251-270715- /X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0042.040927T0638Z-040927T0715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 238 AM EDT MON SEP 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 315 AM EDT * AT 236 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NEWINGTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF SYLVANIA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... NEWINGTON... CAPTOLO... WOODCLIFF... 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 3250 8156 3259 8146 3278 8180 3269 8186 $$ JPC
The 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, 1:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 50 min |
| Sep 27, 2:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 35 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.