Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 676

August 10, 20004 counties in Georgia; 26 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2000, 4:45 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia; 26 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 2000, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2000, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Burke County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 5:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Kershaw44 min
Aug 10, 5:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry50 min
Aug 10, 5:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee46 min
Aug 10, 5:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Saluda45 min
Aug 10, 5:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 2000-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3947 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2000-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
3947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDade5 hr
Aug 10, 2:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Greenville, Lancaster and 6 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.