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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 16, 2004Hart County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 5:52 PM EDT for Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hart County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 16, 10:45 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 162152
TORGSP
GAC147-162245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
552 PM EDT THU SEP 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HART COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 551 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NUBERG...OR
  ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARTWELL...MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HARTWELL AROUND 605 PM EDT
  REED CREEK AROUND 610 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.

LAT...LON 3422 8298 3429 8278 3443 8286 3449 8306
      3434 8309

$$

MOORE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 16, 3:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Franklin	42 min
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

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.