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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC

January 2, 2006Jasper County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 1:41 PM EST for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 16 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 2, 2006, 1:41 PM EST (18:41 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 1:57 PM EST
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 2, 1:50 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Levy, SC	TREES BLOWN DOWN BY HIGH WINDS NEAR LEVY. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 2, 1:23 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 021841
TORCHS
SCC053-021915-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0002.060102T1841Z-060102T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
141 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 215 PM EST

* AT 139 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  LIMEHOUSE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  LEVY AND LIMEHOUSE...

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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.

LAT...LON 3221 8113 3210 8110 3217 8097 3226 8105

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 021856
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
157 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006

SCC053-021907-
/O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060102T1915Z/
JASPER-
157 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR JASPER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 157 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...AND WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
THEREFORE BEEN CANCELED.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR
REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.

LAT...LON 3221 8113 3210 8110 3217 8097 3226 8105

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 1:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	35 min
Jan 2, 2:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	34 min
Jan 2, 2:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	44 min
Jan 2, 3:38 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CHS	Berkeley	12 hr
Jan 2, 5:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	19 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.