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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Charleston, SC

June 14, 2000Jasper County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 3:32 PM EDT for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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 14, 2000, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Jasper County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 3:40 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Ridgeland, SC
Jun 14, 3:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Ridgeland, SC	Large tree limbs down.

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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

281 
WUUS52 KCHS 141932
SVRCHS
SCC053-142000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
332 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF RIDGELAND

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TILLMAN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  RIDGELAND...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 8 MPH.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CHARLESTON.
$$

LAT...LON 3235 8102 3249 8084 3261 8084 3265 8086
          3262 8090 3265 8097 3263 8101 3248 8117

RVT

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 Jun 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
308 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

HIGH INSTAB ACROSS AREA AND UPR LVL VORT CENTER EVIDENT ON WV IMGRY
OVR SE TN TRIGGERING SCT CONVECTION...SOME STRONG. EXPECT STRONGER
AND MORE ORGANIZED STORMS ACROSS CNTRL NC/SC BORDER AREA AND W NC
ASSOCIATED WITH UPR LVL FORCING. ALSO SOME STRONG STORMS ALONG
CSTL COUNTIES WHERE HIGH INSTAB...LLVL MSTR CONVERG...AND SEABREEZE
BOUNDARY FORCING HEAVY ISOLD PULSE TSTMS. LITTLE MVMNT
ON CSTL STORMS...EXPECT SOME SVRE WITH HAIL AND ISOLD STRONG WINDS
AND HEAVY RAIN FROM WET MICROBURSTS. EXPECT SIMILAR SITUATION FOR
EACH OF THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS LITTLE CHANGE IN SFC RIDGE AXIS AND
UPPER AIR PATTERN OVER AREA.

CWF...LITTLE CHANGE OVER NEXT FEW DAYS AS BERMUDA HIGH CONTROLS
WINDS ACROSS COASTAL WATERS. S WINDS 10 TO 15 KTS WITH SEAS 3 TO 4
FEET.

PRELIM CCF
CHS BB 075/091 073/090 074 23-2-2-
SAV BB 074/092 072/090 074 23-2-2-
CHL BB 078/087 078/087 078 23-1-1-
NBC BB 075/092 073/090 074 23-2-2-

.CHS...
SC...NONE.
GA...NONE.

SLB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	29 min
Jun 14, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.