Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2000, 4:38 PM EDT for Colleton County, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. 5 reports 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
- Jun 4, 2000, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colleton County, SC, Hampton County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hendersonville, SC | Several trees down. |
| Jun 4, 4:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Williams, SC | Several Trees down. |
| Jun 4, 4:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, SC | Numerous trees, limbs and power lines down. Over 1500 without power at one time. |
| Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Early Branch, SC | |
| Jun 4, 5:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Walterboro, SC | Tree limb across the road caused a motorist to hydro plane and skid into path of oncoming fire truck. Thirty-four year old motorist was killed. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCHS 042039 SVRCHS SCC029-049-053-042130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 438 PM EDT SUN JUN 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. SOUTHEASTERN HAMPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. NORTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 435 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF GRAYS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF YEMASSEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED A^REA. $$ LAT...LON 3278 8111 3260 8105 3269 8060 3291 8068 RVT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.