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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Charleston, SC

June 25, 2001Beaufort County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2001, 10:47 AM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
Jun 25, 2001, 10:47 AM EDT (14:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2001, 11:30 AM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Beaufort County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 2001-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1607 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 2001-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1607 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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

053 
WFUS52 KCHS 251448
TORCHS
SCC013-251530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1047 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA.

* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT.

* AT 1047 AM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY 
  REPORTED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS JUST NORTHEAST OF BLUFFTON...OR     
  ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5   
  MPH.

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

$$

WOODWORTH
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 10:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort39 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.