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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Charleston, SC

October 7, 2005Liberty County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 2005, 11:59 AM EDT for Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 7, 2005, 11:59 AM EDT (15:59 UTC)
Expired: Oct 7, 2005, 12:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Liberty County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 7, 12:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 E Halfmoon Landing, GA	TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN JUST EAST OF HALFMOON LANDING.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 071601
TORCHS
GAC179-071630-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0014.051007T1559Z-051007T1630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1159 AM EDT FRI OCT 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 PM EDT

* AT 1155 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME
  NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  DARIEN...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  ST. CATHERINES ISLAND.

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.

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

LAT...LON 3166 8127 3162 8119 3169 8115 3173 8122

$$

MTE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 071615
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1214 PM EDT FRI OCT 7 2005

GAC179-071630-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-051007T1630Z/
LIBERTY-
1214 PM EDT FRI OCT 7 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 PM EDT FOR LIBERTY
COUNTY...

AT 1211 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN
LIBERTY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND HILL...MOVING 
NORTH AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL LIKELY PASS A FEW MILES EAST OF 
HALFMOON LANDING.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR
REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.

LAT...LON 3166 8127 3162 8119 3169 8115 3174 8123

$$

MTE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 6, 9:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		87 min
Oct 6, 10:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Long, McIntosh	3 hr
Oct 6, 11:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Liberty	3 hr
Oct 7, 12:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Oct 7, 10:50 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		55 min
Oct 7, 12:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan	39 min
Oct 7, 3:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	McIntosh	4 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.