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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Charleston, SC

December 17, 2000Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Dec 17, 2000, 12:13 AM EST for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

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 Chatham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 00:00Z on 2000-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 831 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 2000-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 209 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.