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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2006, 6:44 PM EDT for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2006, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 132244
TORCHS
SCC053-132330-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0029.060613T2244Z-060613T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
644 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 730 PM EDT
* AT 639 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
SWITZERLAND...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIDGELAND...MOVING
NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
SWITZERLAND AND JASPER...
TILLMAN AND RIDGELAND...
TARBORO...
GILLISONVILLE AND PINELAND...
GRAYS...
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 3232 8114 3230 8094 3263 8094 3272 8101
3261 8119
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KCHS 132309 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 709 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 SCC053-132330- /O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-060613T2330Z/ JASPER- 709 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR JASPER COUNTY... AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF SPAWNING A TORNADO. THIS POTENTIALLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GILLISONVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF RIDGELAND...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GILLISONVILLE...GRAHAMVILLE...GRAYS...RIDGELAND AND PINELAND. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. LAT...LON 3261 8119 3242 8095 3263 8094 3274 8101 $$
000 WWUS52 KCHS 132330 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 730 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 SCC053-132340- /O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-060613T2330Z/ JASPER- 730 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR JASPER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 730 PM EDT... AT 730 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 NEW 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 3261 8119 3242 8095 3263 8094 3274 8101 $$
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, 1:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 26 min |
| 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, 6:56 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.