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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Charleston, SC

June 13, 2006Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2006, 12:05 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 13, 2006, 12:05 PM EDT (16:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2006, 12:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chatham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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
Jun 13, 12:15 PM EDT	TORNADO	4 W Tybee Island, GA	POSSIBLE TORNADO ON WHITEMARSH ISLAND. SEVERAL HOMES DAMAGED. EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE REPORTED. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR DATA.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 131605
TORCHS
GAC051-131630-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0021.060613T1605Z-060613T1630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1205 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 PM EDT

* AT 1205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TYBEE
  ISLAND...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  SAVANNAH BEACH AND TYBEE 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 3190 8089 3196 8079 3202 8086 3205 8098
      3198 8095

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 131623
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1222 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

GAC051-131632-
/O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060613T1630Z/
CHATHAM-
1222 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CHATHAM COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1230 PM
EDT...

AT 1217 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM THAT
PROMPTED THE WARNING WEAKENED...AND WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. THE TORNADO WARNING HAS THEREFORE
BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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 3190 8089 3196 8079 3202 8086 3205 8098
      3198 8095

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:14 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	23 hr
Jun 13, 6:38 AM EDT	Flood Watch	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	22 hr
Jun 13, 11:00 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		60 min
Jun 13, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		26 min
Jun 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Tattnall	46 min
Jun 13, 4:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Effingham	42 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	46 min
Jun 13, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		95 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	38 min

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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.