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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 359

June 3, 2001Richmond County, Georgia; 22 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia; 22 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington46 min
Jun 3, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Richland49 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESumter48 min
Jun 3, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence, Williamsburg24 min
Jun 3, 8:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown, Horry40 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 2001-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 765 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 2001-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1354 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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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.