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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Charleston, SC

September 27, 2004Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 6:46 AM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 6:46 AM EDT (10:46 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2004, 7:30 AM EDT
In force: 44 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), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:46 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 271046
TORCHS
GAC251-271130-
/X.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0047.040927T1046Z-040927T1130Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 AM EDT

* AT 642 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 22 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MILLHAVEN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF SYLVANIA...
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  MILLHAVEN...

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.

THIS TORNADO MAY BE WRAPPED IN RAIN AND NOT EASILY SEEN. IF YOU WAIT
UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE SHELTER NOW

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

LAT...LON 3259 8148 3267 8137 3305 8154 3300 8173

$$

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, 5:18 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan	27 min
Sep 27, 5:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	49 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.