Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 9:45 PM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charleston County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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, 10:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ladson, SC | Large limbs and trees 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 1562 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 130146 TORCHS SCC019-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 945 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT. * AT 945 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EDISTO ISLAND...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EDISTO BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... EDISTO ISLAND. ROCKVILLE. SEABROOK ISLAND. YONGES ISLAND. WADMALAW ISLAND. KIAWAH ISLAND. JOHNS ISLAND. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW $$ LAT...LON 3260 8040 3249 8034 3262 7993 3281 8007 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 9:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 26 min |
| Jun 12, 9:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 10:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 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.