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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2008, 3:52 PM EDT for Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2008, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Liberty County, GA, McIntosh County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KCHS 111952
TORCHS
GAC179-191-112015-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0036.080511T1952Z-080511T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
352 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 351 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PINE
HARBOR...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF DARIEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 48 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
SHELLMAN BLUFF...PINE HARBOR...
SAPELO 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 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 3154 8143 3164 8135 3157 8115 3156 8117
3156 8120 3155 8122 3155 8125 3155 8118
3153 8116 3143 8123
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 295DEG 42KT 3154 8133
$$
JAQ1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KCHS 112015
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
415 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
GAC179-191-112025-
/O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-080511T2015Z/
MCINTOSH GA-LIBERTY GA-
415 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LIBERTY AND
NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 415 PM EDT...
AT 414 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3154 8143 3164 8135 3157 8115 3156 8117
3156 8120 3155 8122 3155 8125 3155 8118
3153 8116 3143 8123
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 295DEG 42KT 3154 8133
$$The 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, 7:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 16 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, 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.