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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Charleston, SC

November 15, 2006Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2006, 10:31 PM EST for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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: Nov 15, 2006, 10:31 PM EST (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2006, 10:50 PM EST
In force: 19 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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
Nov 15, 7:08 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 160331
TORCHS
GAC165-160400-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0047.061116T0331Z-061116T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1031 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM EST

* AT 1031 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...2 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SCARBORO...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  AREAS JUST EAST OF MILLEN ALONG HIGHWAY 21...
  HIGHWAY 23 EAST OF 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.

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

LAT...LON 3277 8195 3271 8185 3290 8176 3293 8187

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 160339
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1038 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

GAC165-160400-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-061116T0400Z/
JENKINS GA-
1038 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR JENKINS
COUNTY...

AT 1038 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF 
MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE....
HIGHWAY 21 EAST OF MILLEN...HIGHWAY 23 EAST OF PERKINS...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

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 3282 8189 3280 8182 3290 8176 3294 8184

$$

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 160350
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1050 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

GAC165-160400-
/O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-061116T0400Z/
JENKINS GA-
1050 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR JENKINS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 1050 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS
THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED.

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 3282 8189 3280 8182 3290 8176 3294 8184

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 10:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	33 min
Nov 15, 11:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	30 min
Nov 15, 11:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	48 min
Nov 15, 11:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		114 min
Nov 16, 1:35 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		55 min
Nov 16, 8:24 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.