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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 3:33 PM EDT for Franklin County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 16, 2004, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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 16, 10:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KGSP 161933 TORGSP GAC119-162015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 331 PM EDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 329 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROYSTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF CARNESVILLE... MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 5 MILES WEST OF ROYSTON AROUND 340 PM EDT 6 MILES WEST OF CANON AROUND 350 PM EDT CARNESVILLE AROUND 355 PM EDT 8 MILES WEST OF LAVONIA AROUND 400 PM EDT 9 MILES WEST OF WHITWORTH AROUND 405 PM EDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3402 8332 3404 8311 3451 8308 3446 8338 $$ NED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 4:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Franklin, Stephens | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert | 49 min |
| Sep 16, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Franklin | 45 min |
| Sep 16, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Hart | 53 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.