Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2012, 4:57 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 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
- Mar 16, 2012, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Berkeley County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
844
WUUS52 KCHS 162057
SVRCHS
SCC015-162200-
/O.NEW.KCHS.SV.W.0022.120316T2057Z-120316T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
457 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROSS...MOVING EAST AT
5 MPH.
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE...
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
CROSS...PINOPOLIS...MONCKS CORNER...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND POWER LINES DIRECTLY TO THE
CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-888-383-2024.
&&
LAT...LON 3300 8010 3315 8032 3318 8029 3320 8034
3325 8035 3327 8037 3328 8035 3327 8030
3330 8026 3336 8024 3339 8025 3341 7985
3338 7981
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 287DEG 6KT 3320 8025
$$1 follow-up statement
035
WWUS52 KCHS 162120
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
520 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012
SCC015-162200-
/O.CON.KCHS.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-120316T2200Z/
BERKELEY SC-
520 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
FOR WEST CENTRAL BERKELEY COUNTY...
AT 521 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HUSSERTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 5
MPH.
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE...
TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...COLLEGE
PARK...MONCKS CORNER...OLD SANTEE CANAL STATE PARK...PINOPOLIS...
SANGAREE AND SOUTHERN LAKE MOULTRIE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY. IF THERE IS NO SAFE SHELTER AVAILABLE...STAY AWAY FROM
ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS AND BODIES OF WATER. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...
YOU ARE WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE.
&&
LAT...LON 3300 8010 3315 8032 3318 8029 3320 8034
3322 8033 3327 8036 3328 8035 3327 8030
3330 8026 3330 7987
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 287DEG 6KT 3319 8021
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Hampton | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Dorchester | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 68 min |
| Mar 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton, Jasper | 65 min |
| Mar 16, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bamberg | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Hampton, Jasper | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 55 min |
| Mar 16, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.