Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 6:58 PM EDT for Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 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
- May 6, 2003, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KCHS 062258
TORCHS
SCC015-035-070000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
658 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 658 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR SUMMERVILLE...OR
ABOUT OVER SUMMERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
SANGAREE AND SUMMERVILLE...
GOOSE CREEK...
TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY
BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY
LAT...LON 3308 7979 3292 7989 3299 8003 3299 8011
3302 8014 3299 8017 3294 8010 3295 8027
3312 8024
$$
AUSTINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 58 min |
| May 6, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 52 min |
| May 6, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 58 min |
| May 6, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 37 min |
| May 6, 7:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 27 min |
| May 6, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 63 min |
| May 6, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 59 min | |
| May 6, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 40 min |
| May 6, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 45 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.