Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1987, 4:14 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1987, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1987, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkeley County, SC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 842 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCHS 262014
TORCHS
SCC015-262045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
414 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
...SOUTHEASTERN BERKELEY
THE CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
THE CITY OF GOOSE CREEK MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES
AN HOUR.
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:42 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC 336 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING ALONG THE COAST AND COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN GEORGIA. AT 3.30 PM...A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTH OF SAVANNAH NORTHEAST ALONG THE COAST TO NORTH MYRTLE BEACH. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS JUST SOUTH OF MYRTLE BEACH. A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OVER THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND INTO NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND ...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE COASTAL COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. FGM
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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.