Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 222
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT for 8 counties in Georgia; 17 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 42 min |
| May 3, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richmond | 29 min |
| May 3, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 49 min |
| May 3, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 43 min |
| May 3, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 39 min |
| May 3, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 22 min |
| May 3, 7:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 28 min |
| May 3, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 39 min |
| May 3, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 65 min |
| May 3, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 29 min |
| May 3, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 50 min |
| May 3, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 48 min |
| May 3, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 54 min |
| May 3, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 66 min |
| May 3, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 26 min |
| May 3, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 51 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Murray, Rabun, Towns and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 6:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 49 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 73 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg, York | 4 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.