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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Charleston, SC

August 25, 2000Allendale County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2000, 4:19 PM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
Aug 25, 2000, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Allendale County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 279 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3819 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
3819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 252020
TORCHS

SCC005-252045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
419 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ALLENDALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT.

* AT 419 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF
  SEIGLING...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF ALLENDALE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  SEIGLING.
  APPLETON.
  SYCAMORE.
  ALLENDALE.
  FAIRFAX.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3317 8119 3316 8141 3288 8142 3296 8121

WOODWORTH
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSAllendale47 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.