Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2007, 4:56 PM EST for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 14 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
- Feb 25, 2007, 4:56 PM EST (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2007, 5:10 PM EST
- In force
- 14 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), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 252157 TORCHS GAC051-252230- /O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0004.070225T2156Z-070225T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 456 PM EST SUN FEB 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 530 PM EST * AT 453 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MONTEITH... OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... MONTEITH...MEINHARD...AND INTERSTATE 95. 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 3221 8124 3215 8122 3220 8113 3224 8119 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KCHS 252210 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 511 PM EST SUN FEB 25 2007 GAC051-252221- /O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070225T2230Z/ CHATHAM GA- 511 PM EST SUN FEB 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CHATHAM COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 508 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR STORM RELATED DAMAGE TO LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN CHARLESTON. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. LAT...LON 3221 8124 3215 8122 3220 8113 3224 8119 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 36 min |
| Feb 25, 5:31 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Feb 25, 5:44 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 61 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.