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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Charleston, SC

September 28, 2002Berkeley County, Charleston County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 2002, 6:16 PM EDT for Berkeley County, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
Sep 28, 2002, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Sep 28, 6:20 PM EDTTornado F0Charleston Afb, SCSeveral spotters tracked a funnel cloud across North Charleston. Funnel finally dipped down briefly into some trees where the top was taken out of several trees and some limbs were downed. The brief touch down was near the intersection of U.S. 52 and Otranto
Sep 28, 6:23 PM EDTTornado F0Goose Creek, SCSpotters continued to watch funnel cloud move out of the North Charleston area and into Berkeley County. Funnel continued to take out tops of trees as it moved into Berkeley 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 10 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 2002-09-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.