Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Dec 17, 2000, 12:13 AM EST for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Dec 17, 2000, 12:13 AM EST (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 12:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ridgeland, SC | Power lines and large 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 170514 TORCHS GAC051-SCC053-170545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1213 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. SOUTH CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 1245 AM EST. * AT 1213 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MEINHARD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. $$ RVT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 12:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 37 min |
| Dec 17, 12:58 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.