Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2006, 10:25 PM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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, 10:25 PM EDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2006, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Beaufort County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCHS 140225 TORCHS SCC013-140300- /O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0033.060614T0225Z-060614T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1025 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 1022 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DALE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF RIDGELAND...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DALE... SHELDON AND GARDENS CORNER... TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024. LAT...LON 3245 8084 3242 8070 3266 8068 3268 8084 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KCHS 140236 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1036 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 SCC013-140300- /O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-060614T0300Z/ BEAUFORT- 1036 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY... AT 1033 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SHELDON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF YEMASSEE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DALE... GARDENS CORNER AND SHELDON. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. LAT...LON 3257 8084 3254 8066 3266 8068 3268 8084 $$
000 WWUS52 KCHS 140251 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1051 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 SCC013-140301- /O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-060614T0300Z/ BEAUFORT- 1051 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1100 PM EDT... AT 1049 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING 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 3257 8084 3254 8066 3266 8068 3268 8084 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Hampton | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 10:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 11:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 11:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 12:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 12:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 5:16 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley | 11 hr |
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.