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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Charleston, SC

December 28, 2005Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Dec 28, 2005, 5:15 PM EST for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: Dec 28, 2005, 5:15 PM EST (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2005, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jenkins County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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
Dec 28, 5:50 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	7 Ne Midville, GA	LARGE TREE DOWN ON POWER LINE

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 28, 3:51 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 282215
TORCHS
GAC165-282245-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0016.051228T2215Z-051228T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
515 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EST

* AT 513 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HERNDON...
  OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

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

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.

WIND DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3290 8223 3274 8214 3294 8169 3312 8177

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 282228
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
527 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

GAC165-282245-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-051228T2245Z/
JENKINS-
527 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EST FOR JENKINS
COUNTY...

AT 523 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BIRDSVILLE...OR
ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ENTERING THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF 
THE COUNTY NEAR FOUR POINTS. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 3290 8223 3282 8213 3292 8191 3300 8199

$$

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 282242
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
542 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

GAC165-282252-
/O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-051228T2245Z/
JENKINS-
542 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR JENKINS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 545 PM
EST...

AT 538 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR STORM RELATED DAMAGE TO LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN CHARLESTON.

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 3290 8223 3282 8213 3292 8191 3300 8199

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 28, 5:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Screven	27 min
Dec 28, 5:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Evans, Tattnall	34 min
Dec 28, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler	30 min
Dec 28, 6:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	25 min
Dec 28, 6:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	33 min
Dec 28, 6:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.