Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1997, 7:21 PM EDT for Lee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
- Jun 23, 1997, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Bishopville, 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916 WUUS1 KCAE 232323 RRA SVRCAE SCC061-240015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 721 PM EDT MON JUN 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...LEE COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN BISHOPVILLE AND MANVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH TOWARD THE TOWN OF WOODROW. 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. DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VAUGHAN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
529 PM EDT MON JUN 23 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
458 PM 1 S WAYNESBORO GA .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/97 BURKE BURKE COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTED DIME SIZE
HAIL...ONE TREE DOWN OVER
A ROAD AND SEVERAL
BRANCHES DOWN.
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.