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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC

March 2, 2002Jasper County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2002, 1:41 PM EST for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 19 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
Mar 2, 2002, 1:41 PM EST (18:41 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 2002, 2:00 PM EST
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 2, 1:50 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50 EGillisonville, SCNumerous trees and powerlines down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 2002-03-02Temperature 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 2002-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 288 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
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
357 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 021841
TORCHS
SCC053-021900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
140 PM EST SAT MAR 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA.

* UNTIL 200 PM EST.

* AT 140 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF SWITZERLAND...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF RIDGELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW 
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR 
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 3238 8108 3226 8092 3249 8081 3265 8096

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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.