Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 2013, 7:41 AM EST for Beaufort County, Charleston County, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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, 7:41 AM EST (12:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2013, 8:30 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Beaufort County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:42 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 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 533 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
819
WFUS52 KCHS 261241
TORCHS
SCC013-019-029-261330-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0002.130226T1241Z-130226T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
741 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF...
CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
COLLETON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
BEAUFORT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 830 AM EST
* AT 741 AM EST...METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...NEAR DALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
DALE...BENNETTS POINT...EDISTO ISLAND...ASHEPOO...GREEN POND...
BEARS BLUFF...ROCKVILLE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS TORNADO MAY BE WRAPPED IN RAIN AND NOT EASILY SEEN. IF YOU WAIT
UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE SHELTER NOW.
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 3264 7995 3245 8053 3256 8071 3306 8050
3300 8040 3296 8042 3289 8039 3287 8040
3286 8040 3282 8015 3287 8018 3268 7988
TIME...MOT...LOC 1241Z 208DEG 30KT 3253 8062
$$1 follow-up statement
619
WWUS52 KCHS 261254
SVSCHS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
754 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013
SCC013-019-029-261304-
/O.CAN.KCHS.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130226T1330Z/
CHARLESTON SC-COLLETON SC-BEAUFORT SC-
754 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF CHARLESTON...COLLETON AND
BEAUFORT COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
AT 754 AM EST...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...AND WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
THEREFORE BEEN CANCELED.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS...AND
POWER LINES...PLEASE CONTACT THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.
LAT...LON 3264 7995 3245 8053 3256 8071 3306 8050
3300 8040 3296 8042 3289 8039 3287 8040
3286 8040 3282 8015 3287 8018 3268 7988
TIME...MOT...LOC 1254Z 208DEG 30KT 3263 8056
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 3:26 AM EST | Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 16 hr |
| Feb 26, 6:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 44 min |
| Feb 26, 7:10 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper | 110 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.