Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 2013, 6:16 AM EST for Chatham County, Georgia; Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- Feb 26, 2013, 6:16 AM EST (11:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2013, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chatham County, GA, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936
WFUS52 KCHS 261116
TORCHS
GAC051-SCC053-261200-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0001.130226T1116Z-130226T1200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
616 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
CHATHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 700 AM EST
* AT 616 AM EST...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO...NEAR WINDSOR FOREST...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
MONTGOMERY...WHITE BLUFF...WINDSOR FOREST...I-16/I-95
INTERCHANGE...SANDFLY...SAVANNAH...THUNDERBOLT...GARDEN CITY...
SAVANNAH HISTORIC DISTRICT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND POWER LINES DIRECTLY TO THE
CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-888-383-2024...WHEN IT IS
SAFE TO DO SO.
&&
LAT...LON 3190 8117 3189 8122 3193 8127 3198 8130
3223 8118 3222 8114 3226 8115 3228 8112
3223 8101 3220 8100 3217 8095 3215 8097
3213 8096 3213 8091 3212 8093 3211 8090
3186 8115
TIME...MOT...LOC 1116Z 201DEG 26KT 3198 8120
$$1 follow-up statement
112
WWUS52 KCHS 261142
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
642 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013
GAC051-SCC053-261152-
/O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-130226T1200Z/
JASPER SC-CHATHAM GA-
642 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF JASPER AND CHATHAM COUNTIES
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
AT 642 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THUS
THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3190 8117 3189 8122 3193 8127 3198 8130
3223 8118 3222 8114 3226 8115 3228 8112
3223 8101 3220 8100 3217 8095 3215 8097
3213 8096 3213 8091 3212 8093 3211 8090
3186 8115
TIME...MOT...LOC 1142Z 201DEG 26KT 3216 8112
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 7:10 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 110 min |
| Feb 26, 3:26 AM EST | Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 16 hr |
| Feb 26, 7:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 8:10 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 110 min |
| Feb 26, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 3 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.