Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 9:21 PM EDT for Marion County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 min. 2 reports 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
- May 25, 2000, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Marion, SC | 1 1/4 inch hail reported. |
| May 25, 9:50 PM EDT | Hail 2.75 | Britton Neck, SC | Department of Transportation reported approximately 20 trees blown down. An emergency manager also reported hail estimated at 2 3/4 inches, breaking windows in the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 5760 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 19.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
921 WFUS52 KILM 260123 TORILM SCC067-260145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 921 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 916 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF PEE DEE... OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FLORENCE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CENTENARY AT 945 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC. RAN $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 31 min |
| May 25, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 27 min |
| May 25, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 51 min |
| May 25, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 43 min |
| May 25, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 45 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.