Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 714

August 27, 200015 counties in North Carolina; 32 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 27, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina; 32 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties

Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Union County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence39 min
Aug 27, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion30 min
Aug 27, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley49 min
Aug 27, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence, Marion53 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 2000-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3497 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
3497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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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.