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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2012, 5:10 PM EST for Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 5:10 PM EST (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 5:39 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 5:11 PM EST | TORNADO | 4 Se Islandton, SC | 1 HOME DESTROYED. ROOF BLOWN OFF A HOUSE. POWERLINES DOWN. |
| Feb 24, 5:12 PM EST | TORNADO | 3 Ese Islandton, SC | 2 HOMES DAMAGED. 1 SHED DESTROYED. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. REPORTS ALONG 300 BLOCK OF FORKS ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 12:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
137
WFUS52 KCHS 242210
TORCHS
SCC029-035-242300-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0002.120224T2210Z-120224T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
510 PM EST FRI FEB 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
CENTRAL DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 600 PM EST
* AT 510 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...NEAR
ISLANDTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
ISLANDTON...WALTERBORO...CANADYS...ROUND O...COTTAGEVILLE...
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 3311 8045 3288 8041 3281 8089 3283 8090
3286 8093 3287 8094 3287 8095 3294 8099
TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 252DEG 30KT 3288 8089
$$
BSH2 follow-up statements
221 WWUS52 KCHS 242221 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 521 PM EST FRI FEB 24 2012 SCC029-035-242300- /O.CON.KCHS.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120224T2300Z/ DORCHESTER SC-COLLETON SC- 521 PM EST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR CENTRAL COLLETON AND CENTRAL DORCHESTER COUNTIES... AT 521 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STOKES...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF WALTERBORO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... COTTAGEVILLE...ROUND O AND WALTERBORO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. && LAT...LON 3285 8078 3296 8083 3311 8045 3288 8041 TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 256DEG 30KT 3291 8076 $$ BSH
342 WWUS52 KCHS 242239 SVSCHS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 539 PM EST FRI FEB 24 2012 SCC029-035-242248- /O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120224T2300Z/ DORCHESTER SC-COLLETON SC- 539 PM EST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN COLLETON AND CENTRAL DORCHESTER COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 538 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...AND THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3285 8078 3296 8083 3311 8045 3288 8041 TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 256DEG 30KT 3294 8059 $$ BSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:39 AM EST | Wind Advisory | CHS | Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton | 15 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper | 66 min |
| Feb 24, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Hampton, Jasper | 57 min |
| Feb 24, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 4:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton and 1 more | 63 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.