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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC

July 22, 2000Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT for Dorchester County, South Carolina. 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
Jul 22, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2000, 7:20 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Dorchester County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 22, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 2000-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2668 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
2668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

412 
WFUS52 KCHS 222252
TORCHS
SCC035-222320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
648 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

* UNTIL 720 PM EDT.

* AT 650 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR REEVESVILLE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF
  SAINT GEORGE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 3323 8068 3311 8067 3309 8034 3328 8038

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley, Charleston42 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley32 min
Jul 22, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton, Dorchester36 min
Jul 22, 7:20 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSDorchester30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.