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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2008, 7:59 AM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 16 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
- May 11, 2008, 7:59 AM EDT (11:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2008, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:37 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 111200 TORCHS GAC251-111215- /O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0029.080511T1159Z-080511T1215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 759 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 815 AM EDT * AT 756 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SYLVANIA... OR ABOUT OVER SYLVANIA...MOVING EAST AT 48 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... SYLVANIA...ALTMAN... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 3294 8151 3269 8144 3269 8168 3287 8171 TIME...MOT...LOC 1159Z 255DEG 42KT 3281 8159 $$ JAQ
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KCHS 111207
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
807 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
GAC251-111215-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-080511T1215Z/
SCREVEN GA-
807 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 AM EDT FOR CENTRAL
SCREVEN COUNTY...
AT 805 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL
SCREVEN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYLVANIA...MOVING EAST
AT 48 MPH.
THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THERE HAVE BEEN
REPORTS OF INJURIES ALONG WITH WIDESPREAD AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
WITH THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WEST OF THE AREA.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3294 8151 3270 8144 3269 8145 3272 8156
3288 8160
TIME...MOT...LOC 1207Z 255DEG 42KT 3283 8148
$$
JAQ000
WWUS52 KCHS 111216
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
816 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
GAC251-111226-
/O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-080511T1215Z/
SCREVEN GA-
816 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL SCREVEN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 815
AM EDT...
AT 815 AM EDT...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.
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 3294 8151 3270 8144 3269 8145 3272 8156
3288 8160
TIME...MOT...LOC 1207Z 255DEG 42KT 3283 8148
$$
JAQThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 37 min |
| May 11, 2:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall | 59 min |
| May 11, 7:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 48 min |
| May 11, 7:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 29 min |
| May 11, 7:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 66 min |
| May 11, 7:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 49 min |
| May 11, 7:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 57 min |
| May 11, 7:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Long and 1 more | 40 min |
| May 11, 7:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Screven | 52 min |
| May 11, 8:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 27 min |
| May 11, 8:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh and 1 more | 36 min |
| May 11, 8:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long | 29 min |
| May 11, 8:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 41 min |
| May 11, 8:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham, Effingham | 19 min |
| May 11, 8:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 52 min |
| May 11, 9:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 37 min |
| May 11, 9:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 29 min |
| May 11, 9:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 24 min |
| May 11, 9:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 23 min |
| May 11, 10:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | McIntosh | 2 hr |
| May 11, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 65 min |
| May 11, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 40 min |
| May 11, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 49 min |
| May 11, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 32 min |
| May 11, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 23 min |
| May 11, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 19 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.