Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 12:27 AM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 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, 12:27 AM EDT (04:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Colleton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.
047 WFUS52 KCHS 020427 TORCHS SCC029-020500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1227 AM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 1227 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMPTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... ASHTON... LODGE... PADGETTS AND COLLETON... SMOAKS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3303 8106 3290 8097 3311 8068 3324 8086 $$
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, 12:59 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, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 30 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 |
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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.