Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 2000, 9:22 PM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 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
- Jul 23, 2000, 9:22 PM EDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charleston County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Isle Of Palms, SC | Waterspout came ashore briefly and damaged two homes under construction. A flower pot was thrown through a car window a block away. |
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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 3164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
935 WFUS52 KCHS 240122 TORCHS SCC019-240145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 922 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 945 PM EDT. * AT 920 PM EDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT COMING ASHORE NEAR THE ISLE OF PALMS CONNECTOR...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... MOUNT PLEASANT. WHITEHALL TERRACE. WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE BECOME TORNADOES. PEOPLE ALONG THE SHORELINE SHOULD BE ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND A LOW SPOT AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. $$ LAT...LON 3285 7973 3285 7964 3298 7963 3297 7972 & EVT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 43 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.