Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Charleston, SC

October 8, 1996Charleston County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1996, 1:55 AM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 1996, 1:55 AM EDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 1996, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Charleston County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 8, 2:10 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50James Is, SC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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.

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 7, 9:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 9:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort30 min
Oct 8, 3:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton, Dorchester37 min
Oct 8, 3:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHSBeaufort, Charleston, Colleton5 hr
Oct 8, 4:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHSBerkeley, Dorchester5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.