Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 3:45 PM EST for Charleston County, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:45 PM EST (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 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 192049 SVRCHS SCC013-019-029-192145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 345 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...BEAUFORT COUNTY...CHARLESTON COUNTY...COLLETON COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF JACKSONBORO...YEMASSEE...EDISTO ISLAND AT 340 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF BEAUFORT MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SExVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 19, 1:31 PM EST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SCZALL-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 130 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL COUNTIES EXCEPT FOR GEORGETOWN AND HORRY UNTIL 7PM EST.... THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ON RADAR FROM 45 MILES WEST OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH THE GREENVILLE AREA TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUGUSTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING...AS THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THE COASTAL COUNTIES. JFT
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 1:54 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
GAC029-031-043-051-103-109-267-279-191945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 149 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 AT 145 PM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 91 IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM. AT 145 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF AUGUSTA...AND SOME LIGHT SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...MOVING EAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED.
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:35 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SCZALL-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 230 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL COUNTIES EXCEPT FOR GEORGETOWN AND HORRY UNTIL 7PM EST.... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE...WERE DETECTED FROM THE CHARLOTTE AREA THROUGH THE COLUMBIA AREA TO 45 MILES SOUTH OF AUGUSTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING HAIL WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE GEORGIA-SC BORDER INTO ALLENDALE..HAMPTON AND COLLETON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING...AS THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THE COASTAL COUNTIES. JFT
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:45 PM EST, 1 hour before
GAC029-031-043-051-103-109-267-279-192045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 243 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 91 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. AT 245 PM...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF AUGUSTA AND WEST OF VIDALIA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE FROM ALBANY GEORGIA NORTHEAST THROUGH AUGUSTA INTO SOUTH CAROLINA. r MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT NEAR 45 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:35 PM EST, 10 minutes before
SCZALL-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 230 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL COUNTIES EXCEPT FOR GEORGETOWN AND HORRY UNTIL 7PM EST.... ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM FOR GEORGETOWN AND HORRY COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE...CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA AND WERE LOCATED FROM JUST WEST OF FLORENCE THROUGH THE ORANGEBURG AREA TO SOUTHERN HAMPTON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EASTWARD AT AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR AND MOVE THROUGH THE REST OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADI9O FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH. JFT
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:38 PM EST, 7 minutes before
GAC029-031-043-051-103-109-267-279-192145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 336 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 AT 335 PM TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PORTION SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...AND NORTHEAST INTO THE CAROLINAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH RATHER HEAVY RAINFALL... CONTINUED FROM FORT STEWART AND SWAINSBORO SOUTHWEST TO DOUGLAS AND MCRAE. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. "
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 3:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Hampton | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.