Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 2:15 AM EDT for Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2003, 2:15 AM EDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WUUS52 KCHS 020615 SVRCHS SCC029-035-020645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 214 AM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 245 AM EDT * AT 206 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARLEYVILLE TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF ROUND O...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAINT GEORGE TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALTERBORO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... ROUND O AND HARLEYVILLE... COTTAGEVILLE... DORCHESTER... RIDGEVILLE AND GIVHANS... KNIGHTSVILLE... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY. LAT...LON 3331 8056 3279 8055 3295 8019 3336 8044 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 10:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 11:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Hampton | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 12:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 12:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 31 min |
| Jul 2, 1:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 1:59 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 61 min | |
| Jul 2, 12:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 53 min | |
| Jul 2, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.