Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2008, 10:16 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Effingham County, Georgia; Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 15, 2008, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bulloch County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 10:43 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Rincon, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 160215
TORCHS
GAC031-103-SCC053-160245-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0019.080316T0216Z-080316T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1016 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
CENTRAL EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
* AT 1013 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR STILSON...
OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
EGYPT...STILSON...
SPRINGFIELD...GUYTON...
STILLWELL...RINCON...
EBENEZER...
PURYSBURGH...
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 SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.
LAT...LON 3247 8155 3242 8105 3234 8096 3228 8113
3223 8116 3224 8120 3221 8124 3230 8158
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 278DEG 45KT 3237 8143
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KCHS 160233
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1033 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
GAC031-160243-
/O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-080316T0245Z/
BULLOCH GA-
1033 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BULLOCH COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3227 8144 3229 8144 3240 8118 3238 8106
3234 8096 3228 8113 3223 8116 3224 8120
3221 8124
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 284DEG 43KT 3231 8121
$$
GAC103-SCC053-160245-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-080316T0245Z/
EFFINGHAM GA-JASPER SC-
1033 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
JASPER AND SOUTHERN EFFINGHAM COUNTIES...
AT 1029 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR RINCON...OR ABOUT
7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
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 SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3227 8144 3229 8144 3240 8118 3238 8106
3234 8096 3228 8113 3223 8116 3224 8120
3221 8124
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 284DEG 43KT 3231 8121
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 57 min |
| Mar 15, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven | 91 min |
| Mar 15, 8:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 9:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham, Screven | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 9:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Effingham | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham, Screven | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 10:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham, Effingham | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 58 min |
| Mar 15, 11:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 12:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 17 min |
| Mar 15, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Colleton, Hampton | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 20 min |
| Mar 15, 8:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Mar 15, 8:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 56 min |
| Mar 15, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 9:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 9:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 116 min | |
| Mar 15, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 97 min | |
| Mar 15, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 9:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 92 min | |
| Mar 15, 10:58 PM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley | 15 hr |
| Mar 15, 11:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 55 min | |
| Mar 16, 12:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 67 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.