Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 5:59 PM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 12, 2001, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colleton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Islandton, SC | Trees and power lines down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 122159 TORCHS SCC029-122230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 559 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 630 PM EDT. * AT 559 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR ASHTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMPTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 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. $$ LAT...LON 3302 8106 3292 8096 3312 8071 3324 8091 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.