Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 7:25 AM EST for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 1996, 7:25 AM EST (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1996, 8:15 AM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aiken County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:30 AM EST | Hail 0.75 | Beech Island, SC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCAE 171224 RRA SVRCAE SCC003-171315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 725 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...AIKEN COUNTY AT 720 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO AIKEN COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AWP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 10:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 10:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lee | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 11:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.