Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2006, 1:34 PM EDT for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 13, 2006, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 131733 TORCHS SCC053-131800- /O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0022.060613T1734Z-060613T1800Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 134 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 131 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF LEVY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... LEVY... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024. LAT...LON 3209 8105 3210 8092 3223 8101 3224 8107 $$
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KCHS 131749
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
150 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006
SCC053-131800-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060613T1800Z/
JASPER-
150 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR JASPER
COUNTY...
AT 147 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LEVY...OR ABOUT 11
MILES NORTH OF SAVANNAH...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LEVY AND
PRITCHARD.
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR
REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3218 8104 3218 8098 3222 8101 3226 8100
3225 8107
$$000
WWUS52 KCHS 131800
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
159 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006
SCC053-131809-
/O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060613T1800Z/
JASPER-
159 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR JASPER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 200 PM EDT...
AT 159 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM THAT
PROMPTED THE WARNING WEAKENED...AND WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
THEREFORE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS...TV OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS
SOURCE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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 3218 8104 3218 8098 3222 8101 3226 8100
3225 8107
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:14 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | CHS | Allendale, Berkeley, Dorchester, Hampton | 23 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:38 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CHS | Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton | 22 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Allendale | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 61 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.