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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Charleston, SC

August 11, 2000Colleton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2000, 1:42 PM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
Aug 11, 2000, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Colleton County, SC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 11, 1:55 PM EDTHail 0.75Walterboro, 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2000-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3414 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2000-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston, Dorchester23 min
Aug 11, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every 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.