Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 7:12 AM EST for Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
- Nov 11, 2002, 7:12 AM EST (12:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 7:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Saluda, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported trees down, one on a home that went through the roof near SC hwys 391 and 378. |
| Nov 11, 7:47 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, SC | Sheriff reported scattered trees down around the county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
262
WFUS52 KCAE 111212
TORCAE
SCC081-111300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
711 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN SALUDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 800 AM EST.
* AT 710 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A TORNADO OVER GREENWOOD COUNTY..MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
SALUDA
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL AND DANGEROUS TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN OR
NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW
GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
&
JB/CDLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 5:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 6:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 6:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 7:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 7:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 38 min |
| Nov 11, 7:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 7:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 7:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 7:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 53 min |
| Nov 11, 7:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 7:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 8:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 8:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 23 min |
| Nov 11, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 8:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 8:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 56 min |
| Nov 11, 8:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 52 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.