Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 40, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 4, 2006, 5:35 PM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
- Sep 4, 2006, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allendale County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 2235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 042135 TORCHS SCC005-042200- /O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0040.060904T2135Z-060904T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 535 PM EDT MON SEP 4 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ALLENDALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 533 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APPLETON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF ALLENDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... APPLETON...SEIGLING...HIGHWAY 3...HIGHWAY 125 BETWEEN MARTIN AND APPLETON... 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 3297 8150 3294 8146 3305 8130 3310 8144 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KCHS 042147 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 546 PM EDT MON SEP 4 2006 SCC005-042200- /O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-060904T2200Z/ ALLENDALE SC- 546 PM EDT MON SEP 4 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR ALLENDALE COUNTY... AT 546 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APPLETON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF ALLENDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... APPLETON...SEIGLING...INCLUDING HIGHWAY 125 BETWEEN MARTIN AND APPLETON...HIGHWAY 3. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. LAT...LON 3299 8146 3296 8144 3305 8130 3309 8141 $$
000 WWUS52 KCHS 042158 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 558 PM EDT MON SEP 4 2006 SCC005-042208- /O.EXP.KCHS.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-060904T2200Z/ ALLENDALE SC- 558 PM EDT MON SEP 4 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ALLENDALE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM EDT... AT 558 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. 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 3299 8146 3296 8144 3305 8130 3309 8141 $$
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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.