Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Charleston, SC

Issued

Aug 30, 1997, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)

Expired

Aug 30, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Charleston, SC

Area

Whole counties

County Colleton County, SC

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 301735 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC029-301815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
135 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...COLLETON COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF THE
WALTERBORO AREA AND ANOTHER AREA TO THE NORTHWEST ALONG THE COLLETON AND
BAMBERG COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST LESS THAN
10 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY PHEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
MJR

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 30, 9:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
955 AM EDT SAT AUG 30 1997

FRONT SAGGING ACRS S CENTRL SC THIS MORN WITH ONLY ONE AREA PCPN WELL
TO THE N AND E OF S CSTL COUNTIES. DECENT INSTAB FORM AM SOUNDING WITH
GOOD MSTR AND WITH FRONT IN PLACE LIKE THE IDEA OF 30 POP ACRS SC CWA
...20 POP FINE FOR GA. SFC ANALY SHOWS AREA OF LO PRES AREA JUST W OF
SAV AND THIS SHOULD CONT TO DRFT TO THE SW THRU TODAY. WINDS SHOULD
CONT VAR ACRS SC TO BECM E TODAY. ALTHO FRONT IS IN AREA...DWPTS ACRS
THE S CSTL AREA WELL INTO 70S AND DONT EXPCT DRASTIC MODIFICATION.
EVEN WITH HAZY CONDS FOR THE RGN...MORNING RUN GIVES TEMPS SOARING INTO
THE 90S AND COMBO SHOULD PUSH HT INDICES AOA 105 MARK AND HT ADVSRY FOR
CSTL RGN SEEMS IN ORDER. ATTIM...CHS ARPT DWPT 79 DEG AND WITH ANY TEMP
OVR 90 GIVES ABV 105 INDEX. IF DWPT AT 73...TEMPS MID 90S AT 106. SEEMS
LIKE A DEFINITE POSS. OTHER THAN THAT...NO OTHER CHGS RECMNDD. CWF FINE.

...HEAT ADV FOR S CSTL ZONES...

MJR

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.