Alert archive / South Carolina / 2002
Weather alerts in South Carolina, March 2002
45 weather alerts in March 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 March 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 41
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 31, 200230 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jasper | 19 min |
| Mar 2, 5:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 30 min | |
| Mar 9, 5:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 5:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 6:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 7:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:45 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 60 min | |
| Mar 13, 5:05 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 55 min | |
| Mar 26, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Cherokee and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 23 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 26 min |
| Mar 26, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 9:52 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 83 min | |
| Mar 31, 12:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Kershaw, Lee and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 1:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 66 min |
| Mar 31, 1:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 42 min |
| Mar 31, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 2:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | York | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 66 min |
| Mar 31, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 2:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 2:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 2:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 65 min |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 55 min |
| Mar 31, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 3:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 3:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 60 min |
| Mar 31, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 65 min |
| Mar 31, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 6:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 6:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 6:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 34 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 | 35 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jasper County6
- Florence County6
- Sumter County6
- Lexington County5
- Calhoun County5
- Orangeburg County5
- Aiken County4
- Lee County4
- Saluda County3
- Bamberg County3
- Barnwell County3
- Beaufort County3
- Colleton County3
- Dorchester County3
- Hampton County3
- Marion County3
- Richland County3
- Edgefield County3
- Fairfield County3
- Kershaw County3
- York County3
- Marlboro County3
- Darlington County3
- Dillon County3
- Abbeville County2
- Laurens County2
- Newberry County2
- Allendale County2
- Clarendon County2
- Chester County2
- McCormick County2
- Union County2
- Berkeley County1
- Charleston County1
- Williamsburg County1
- Cherokee County1
- Greenwood County1
- Lancaster County1
- Spartanburg County1
- Chesterfield County1
Nearby
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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.