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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Charleston, SC

September 27, 2004Bryan County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 5:18 AM EDT for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 5:18 AM EDT (09:18 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2004, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bryan County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 27, 12:35 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 270918
TORCHS
GAC029-270945-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0044.040927T0918Z-040927T0945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
518 AM EDT MON SEP 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 AM EDT

* AT 513 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  BLITCHTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF PEMBROKE...MOVING NORTHWEST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BLITCHTON AND ELLABELL...

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 3206 8147 3213 8139 3224 8143 3219 8158

$$

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, 2:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	37 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.