Alert archive / South Carolina / 2002
Weather alerts in South Carolina, August 2002
74 weather alerts in August 2002, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 74
- Warnings
- 74
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 25, 200220 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Saluda | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 2:18 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 57 min | |
| Aug 2, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 8:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 56 min | |
| Aug 6, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 54 min | |
| Aug 6, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 32 min |
| Aug 15, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 40 min |
| Aug 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 16 min |
| Aug 17, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 52 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 63 min | |
| Aug 18, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 23 min |
| Aug 18, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 39 min |
| Aug 19, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 25 min |
| Aug 20, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 10:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 69 min | |
| Aug 24, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 10:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 69 min | |
| Aug 24, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 26 min |
| Aug 25, 1:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 97 min | |
| Aug 25, 2:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 32 min | |
| Aug 25, 1:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 31 min |
| Aug 25, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 34 min |
| Aug 25, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 67 min |
| Aug 25, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 53 min | |
| Aug 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 57 min | |
| Aug 25, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 49 min | |
| Aug 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 90 min | |
| Aug 25, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 90 min | |
| Aug 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 62 min |
| Aug 26, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 55 min | |
| Aug 27, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 62 min | |
| Aug 27, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 74 min | |
| Aug 27, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 74 min | |
| Aug 28, 7:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 67 min | |
| Aug 29, 11:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Colleton | 79 min |
| Aug 29, 12:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 91 min |
| Aug 29, 12:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Colleton | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:05 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 55 min | |
| Aug 30, 8:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Charleston | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 45 min | |
| Aug 31, 3:58 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 92 min | |
| Aug 31, 5:30 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 60 min | |
| Aug 31, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Charleston | 113 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 44 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 23 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colleton County5
- Horry County5
- Dorchester County4
- Lexington County3
- Laurens County3
- Kershaw County3
- York County2
- Richland County2
- Lee County2
- Abbeville County2
- Fairfield County2
- Williamsburg County2
- Georgetown County2
- Anderson County2
- Charleston County2
- Berkeley County1
- Aiken County1
- Saluda County1
- Union County1
- Spartanburg County1
- Dillon County1
- Bamberg County1
- Allendale County1
- Chester County1
- Marion County1
- Oconee County1
- Pickens County1
- Greenwood County1
- Beaufort County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.