Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 1992, 3:09 PM EST for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:09 PM EST (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hampton County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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
- 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 192013 TORCHS SCC049-192115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 309 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...HAMPTON COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITY OF HAMPTON A TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY AUGUSTA RADAR 25 MILES WEST OF HAMPTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Mar 19, 1:31 PM EST, 1 hour 38 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 15 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, 34 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, 24 minutes 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.
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, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton | 60 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.