Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 6

January 19, 200113 counties in North Carolina; 20 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 19, 2001, 3:15 PM EST for 13 counties in North Carolina; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 2001, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 2001, 8:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties

Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Lee County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 3:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Newberry43 min
Jan 19, 3:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Richland47 min
Jan 19, 4:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus25 min
Jan 19, 4:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELancaster39 min
Jan 19, 4:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw38 min
Jan 19, 4:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson25 min
Jan 19, 4:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington38 min
Jan 19, 5:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland41 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 2001-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 1:15 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAiken, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.