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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Charleston, SC

April 26, 2006Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2006, 6:28 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: Apr 26, 2006, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Apr 26, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 575 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCHS 262228
TORCHS
SCC015-262315-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0007.060426T2228Z-060426T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
628 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 627 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EADYTOWN...
  OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF SAINT STEPHEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  EADYTOWN...
  SAINT STEPHEN...
  PINEVILLE...

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 3346 8024 3337 8012 3340 7982 3352 8003

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCHS 262246
SVSCHS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
642 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006

SCC015-262315-
/O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-060426T2315Z/
BERKELEY-
644 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
BERKELEY COUNTY...

AT 643 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PINEVILLE...OR 
ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF SAINT STEPHEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH INCREASING POTENTIAL FOR A TORNADO WILL BE 
MOVING OVER CROSS AND LAKE MOULTRIE PRIOR TO 700 PM AND THIS STORM 
MAY ALSO AFFECT THE SAINT STEPHEN AREA.

DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE
PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK
TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND
TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF
YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT.

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 3346 8024 3337 8012 3340 7982 3352 8003

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	28 min
Apr 26, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	44 min
Apr 26, 3:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	26 min
Apr 26, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	48 min
Apr 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	31 min
Apr 26, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	57 min
Apr 26, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	44 min
Apr 26, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	65 min
Apr 26, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	35 min
Apr 26, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	30 min
Apr 26, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	35 min
Apr 26, 7:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	24 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.