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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Charleston, SC

September 25, 2011Hampton County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2011, 3:24 PM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 9 reports 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: Sep 25, 2011, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2011, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 25, 3:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ese Middleground, GA	LARGE TREE DOWN ON LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sep 25, 3:25 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	2 N Middleground, GA	BULLOCH 911 CENTER REPORTS CONSIDERABLE HAIL DAMAGE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.
Sep 25, 3:26 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ese Middleground, GA	ONE LARGE TREE LIMB FELL INTO LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sep 25, 3:26 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Middleground, GA	POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE TOPS SHEARED OFF LARGE AND VERY TALL PINE TREES. SOME PEOPLE REPORTED THAT THE WIND WAS BLOWING FROM ONE DIRECTION THAN ABRUPTLY CHANGED AND WAS BLOWING FROM THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
Sep 25, 3:29 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ese Middleground, GA	BULLOCH 911 CENTER REPORTS A LARGE TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE ON LAKEVIEW ROAD. THE HOUSE SUSTAINED ENOUGH DAMAGE WHERE THE OCCUPANTS ARE BEING SHELTERED BY THE RED CROSS.
Sep 25, 3:34 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ssw Dover, GA	BULLOCH 911 CENTER REPORTS NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
Sep 25, 3:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Dover, GA	SEVERAL 3 INCH DIAMATER MAGNOLIA TREE LIMBS DOWN. ALSO RECEIVED PENNY SIZE HAIL.
Sep 25, 4:07 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Wnw Newington, GA	ONE TREE DOWN ALONG UNION CHURCH ROAD AND WINDMILL ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
Sep 25, 4:11 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Nnw Newington, GA	ONE TREE DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 21 AND EUREKA ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

937 
WFUS52 KCHS 251924
TORCHS
GAC031-103-165-251-SCC049-252015-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0010.110925T1924Z-110925T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
324 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BULLOCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL JENKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
  SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
  EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HAMPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 324 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...NEAR
  HOPEULIKIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  MIDDLEGROUND...HOPEULIKIT...ROCKY FORD...SCARBORO...DOVER...
  WOODCLIFF...CAPTOLO...OLIVER...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND POWER LINES DIRECTLY TO THE
CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-888-383-2024.

&&

LAT...LON 3292 8160 3265 8142 3258 8140 3239 8183
      3263 8203
TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 236DEG 25KT 3253 8182

$$

1 follow-up statement

066 
WWUS52 KCHS 251957
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
357 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

GAC165-252007-
/O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-110925T2015Z/
JENKINS GA-
357 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

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

LAT...LON 3265 8185 3267 8187 3268 8187 3276 8183
      3292 8160 3265 8142 3258 8140 3243 8174
      3264 8189
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 236DEG 25KT 3261 8158

$$

GAC031-103-251-SCC049-252015-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-110925T2015Z/
SCREVEN GA-BULLOCH GA-EFFINGHAM GA-HAMPTON SC-
357 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN HAMPTON...EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL EFFINGHAM...NORTH
CENTRAL BULLOCH AND SCREVEN COUNTIES...

AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CAPTOLO...OR ABOUT
11 MILES SOUTH OF SYLVANIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALTMAN...
CAPTOLO...DOVER...HUNTERS...MIDDLEGROUND...NEWINGTON...OLIVER...ROCKY
FORD...SYLVANIA AND WOODCLIFF.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPORT HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE...CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. REPORTS CAN ALSO BE SENT THROUGH TWITTER USING
#WXREPORT.

&&

LAT...LON 3265 8185 3267 8187 3268 8187 3276 8183
      3292 8160 3265 8142 3258 8140 3243 8174
      3264 8189
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 236DEG 25KT 3261 8158

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 24, 9:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	72 min
Sep 25, 6:01 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	3 hr
Sep 25, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	56 min
Sep 25, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	51 min
Sep 25, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	45 min
Sep 25, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	38 min
Sep 25, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	62 min
Sep 25, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	58 min
Sep 25, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	57 min
Sep 25, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	49 min
Sep 25, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	42 min
Sep 25, 6:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	95 min
Sep 25, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	27 min
Sep 25, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	37 min
Sep 25, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	60 min
Sep 24, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler	29 min
Sep 24, 10:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	42 min
Sep 25, 3:37 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		61 hr
Sep 25, 1:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Chatham	45 min
Sep 25, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler	31 min
Sep 25, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Tattnall	59 min
Sep 25, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Jenkins, Screven	57 min
Sep 25, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bulloch	50 min
Sep 25, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Effingham	31 min
Sep 25, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	34 min
Sep 25, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	40 min
Sep 25, 5:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Liberty	91 min
Sep 25, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	25 min
Sep 25, 7:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Effingham, Liberty	86 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.