Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 1:23 PM EST for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 1:23 PM EST (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 2:15 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Beaufort County, SC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
858
WUUS52 KCHS 221823
SVRCHS
SCC013-221915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
123 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 215 PM EST
* AT 122 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70
MPH 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUFFTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF
RIDGELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
BLUFFTON...
HILTON HEAD ISLAND...
FOLLY FIELD...
PORT ROYAL AND PARRIS ISLAND...
BEAUFORT...
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 3242 8080 3228 8093 3211 8079 3243 8045
3267 8077 3266 8083
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 12:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 12:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 12:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 1:01 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Feb 22, 1:01 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Feb 22, 1:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 1:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 60 min | |
| Feb 22, 2:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 74 min |
| Feb 22, 2:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Feb 22, 2:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 87 min | |
| Feb 22, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 4:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 35 min | |
| Feb 22, 4:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 90 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.