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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Charleston, SC

June 13, 2006Colleton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2006, 10:39 PM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 51 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, 10:39 PM EDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2006, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 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), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 140239
TORCHS
SCC029-140330-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0035.060614T0239Z-060614T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1039 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 1038 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF ISLANDTON TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  WHITE HALL...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  YEMASSEE TO 10 MILES EAST OF YEMASSEE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  WHITE HALL AND GREEN POND...
  RITTER AND ISLANDTON...
  ASHTON...
  WALTERBORO AND LODGE...
  WILLIAMS AND RUFFIN...

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 3294 8102 3270 8080 3258 8056 3304 8058
      3318 8078 3304 8104

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 140255
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1054 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

SCC029-140330-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-060614T0330Z/
COLLETON-
1054 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR COLLETON
COUNTY...

AT 1049 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS.  RADAR INDICATED TWO 
POSSIBLE TORNADOES...ONE NEAR ISLANDTON AND THE OTHER BETWEEN WHITE 
HALL AND HENDERSONVILLE. THESE TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WERE LOCATED 
ALONG A LINE ON THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ISLANDTON TO GREEN 
POND...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMPTON 
TO 14 MILES EAST OF YEMASSEE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ASHTON...
CANADYS...COLLETON...GREEN POND...HENDERSONVILLE...ISLANDTON...
LODGE...PADGETTS...RITTER...RUFFIN...SMOAKS...WALTERBORO...WHITE HALL
AND WILLIAMS.

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 3294 8102 3270 8080 3258 8056 3304 8058
      3318 8078 3304 8104

$$

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 140322
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1122 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

SCC029-140330-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-060614T0330Z/
COLLETON-
1122 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR COLLETON
COUNTY...

AT 1120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS.  THESE TORNADO PRODUCING
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LODGE TO SIDNEY TO
JACKSONBORO...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES SOUTH OF
BAMBERG TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALTERBORO TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
WALTERBORO...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CANADYS...
COLLETON...COTTAGEVILLE...JACKSONBORO...LODGE...PADGETTS...ROUND O...
RUFFIN...SMOAKS...WALTERBORO AND WILLIAMS.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

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 3298 8091 3293 8070 3264 8045 3287 8039
      3304 8042 3304 8058 3318 8078 3304 8104

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 10:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Beaufort	35 min
Jun 13, 10:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Hampton	26 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.