Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 5:40 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fairfield County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 162148 TORCAE SCC039-162230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 540 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AT 540 PM EDT...WSR-88D WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY BETWEEN JENKINSVILLE AND WINNSBORO. HAM RADIO OPERATORS IN THIS AREA REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DO NOT STAY IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME DURING A TORNADO. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES ARE EASILY TO SSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. R. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 11:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 12:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 12:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 12:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington, Orangeburg | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry, Richland | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 2:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chester | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | York | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | York | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chester | 26 min |
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.