Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1996, 12:17 PM EST for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 28 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 7, 1996, 12:17 PM EST (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1996, 12:45 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarendon County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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 7, 12:31 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Bloomville, 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 071717 TORCAE SCC027-071745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1217 PM EST THU MAR 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN CLARENDON COUNTY AT 1212 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SOUTHERN CLARENDON COUNTY NEAR SUMMERTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE SOUTH OF MANNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES. SJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 8:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Aiken, Lexington | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 28 min |
| Mar 7, 3:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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.