Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2002, 8:24 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- May 3, 2002, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkeley County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | St Stephen, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 2485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.7
- Supercell composite
- -3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCHS 040024 SVRCHS SCC015-040115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 824 PM EDT FRI MAY 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 915 PM EDT. * AT 824 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILSONS LANDING...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF SAINT STEPHEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT PINEVILLE AND BONNEAU. QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 3353 8031 3341 8015 3377 7964 3396 7987
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 66 min |
| May 3, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 57 min |
| May 3, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 52 min |
| May 3, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 42 min |
| May 3, 9:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 91 min | |
| May 3, 10:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 60 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.