Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 7:56 PM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 12, 2001, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beaufort County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Gardens Corner, SC | |
| Jun 12, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Bluffton, SC |
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, 11.9 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.
- 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 122357 TORCHS SCC013-053-130030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 756 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. EASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 830 PM EDT. * AT 756 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR JASPER... OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF RIDGELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... OLD HOUSE. BEAUFORT. PORT ROYAL. 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 3240 8102 3228 8099 3239 8057 3259 8068 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, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 31 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.