Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT for Charleston County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. 3 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
- Aug 11, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Charleston County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Knightsville, SC | Power lines down. |
| Aug 11, 3:05 PM EDT | Hail 1 | North Charleston, SC | |
| Aug 11, 3:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Charleston, SC | A container crane at a loading dock was blown into two other cranes causing several large shipping containers to be thrown into the water. |
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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 30 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.