Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Charleston, SC

Issued

Jun 3, 2002, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)

Expired

Jun 3, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Charleston, SC

Area

Whole counties

County Colleton County, SC

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

050 
WUUS52 KCHS 032037
SVRCHS
SCC029-032115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
436 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA.

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 436 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH
  OF WALTERBORO...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED NEAR...
  WALTERBORO AT 445 PM.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WALTERBORO.

DIME SIZE HAIL...60 MPH WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN 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 3275 8073 3282 8058 3301 8063 3294 8084

SLB

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
330 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002

TROF OVER THE WESTERN U.S. IS HELPING TO BUILD AND STRENGTHEN THE
UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST.  THE ETA MODELS KEEPS THE 500-700MB
HIGH CENTERED OVER THE CWA THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY...GIVING US QUITE
A BIT OF HAZE.  THIS RIDGE SHOULD MEAN FAIR WEATHER FOR THE NEXT FEW
DAYS AS ONSHORE WINDS RETURN AND HELPS TO COOL THINGS DOWN JUST A
BIT.  THE SURFACE HIGH TO THE NORTH WILL SHIFT EAST OVER THE
ATLANTIC ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...KEEPING US WITH EAST AND
SOUTHEAST WINDS.  THE AVN IS A LITTLE FASTER IN MOVING THE RIDGE TO
THE EAST OFF THE COAST.

ON WATER VAPOR LOOPS...THE UPPER LOW OVER THE GULF HAS STARTED TO
MOVE NORTHEAST...BUT SHOULD NOT AFFECT OUR AREA SIGNIFICANTLY IF THE
RIDGE HOLDS ITS GROUND.  RH TIME SECTIONS OVER THE AREA HAVE NOT
BEEN REPRESENTATIVE OF CURRENT CLOUD COVER AS SUBSIDENCE FROM THE
RIDGE HAS HELP TO KEEP CLOUD COVER TO A MINIMUM.

LATEST AVN LOOKS VERY MESSY WITH ENERGY CUTTING OFF OVER THE
SOUTHEAST STATES AND NOT ALLOWING A COOL FRONT TO PASS THROUGH BY
LATE WEEK.  THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN LAST NIGHTS MRF WHICH CUTS OFF
THE ENERGY OVER TEXAS AND ALLOWS A GOOD S/W TROF TO MOVE NORTH OF
THE AREA AND BUILDS A SFC HIGH PRESSURE AREA DOWN OVER THE CWA THIS
WEEKEND.  PREFER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE...BUT WILL NOT BE AS AGGRESSIVE
ON LOWERING TEMPS.  WILL CARRY SLIGHT POPS THROUGH THE EXTENDED DUE
TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE PATTERN.

MARINE...WEAK ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS
WITH NO FLAGS EXPECTED.

CHS   71  90  70  89 /  00  10  00  10
SAV   72  91  71  90 /  00  10  00  10
CHL   74  85  74  85 /  00  10  00  10
NBC   74  90  72  89 /  00  10  00  10
RBW   70  94  70  92 /  00  10  00  10

.CHS...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.

PY/HA

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.