Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2000, 11:59 PM EDT for Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 18, 2000, 11:59 PM EDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 12:10 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dorchester, SC | Trees down along U.S. 78. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 4421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCHS 190401 SVRCHS SCC015-035-190430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1159 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. NORTHERN DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT. * AT 1159 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HARLEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF SAINT GEORGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... DORCHESTER. RIDGEVILLE. JEDBURG. DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 3331 8051 3315 8061 3297 8027 3316 8014 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.