Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1991, 3:16 PM EST for Hampton County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1991, 3:16 PM EST (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1991, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 637 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 883 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Mar 3, 1:14 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 3, 1:48 PM EST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
SC007-008-031900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 140 PM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM EST... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF AUGUSTA TO 55 MILES WEST OF SAVANNAH...AND FROM 20 TO 40 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SAVANNAH. THESE AREAS WILL BE CLOSELY WATCHED FOR SIGNS OF SEVERE WEATHER. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM THE WILMING- TON AREA OFFSHORETO 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON THEN TO 80 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH- NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO OR TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTSx AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JFT
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:49 PM EST, 27 minutes before
GAZ010-013-014-015-031900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 248 PM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 7 PM EST... AT 240 PM EST THE SAVANNAH WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF STATESBORO TO 10 MILES WEST OF HINESVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EFFINGHAM AND WEST CHATHAM COUNTIES BY 315 PM EST. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:51 PM EST, 25 minutes before
SC007-008-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 245 PM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM EST... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH HAIL..WERE NOTED FROM HAMPTON COUNTY INTO JASPER AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA THROUGH THE AUGUSTA AREA TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAVANNAH. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM THE WILMING- TON AREA OFFSHORE TO 75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON THEN TO 100 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH- NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO OR TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JFT
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:56 PM EST, 20 minutes before
GAZ010-013-014-015-032045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO EXP. TIME CODE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 248 PM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 7 PM EST... AT 240 PM EST THE SAVANNAH WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF STATESBORO TO 10 MILES WEST OF HINESVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EFFINGHAM AND WEST CHATHAM COUNTIES BY 315 PM EST. BRIEF HEAVY& RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 9:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 9:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Williamsburg | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 9:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Williamsburg | 54 min |
| Mar 3, 9:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Georgetown | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 10:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Horry | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 3:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 66 min |
| Mar 3, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 66 min |
| Mar 3, 5:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Williamsburg | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.