Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 5:24 PM EDT for Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 5, 1997, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barnwell County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Blackville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 052125 RRA SVRCAE SCC011-052200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 524 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...NORTHERN BARNWELL COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS NEAR THE TOWN OF ELKO BETWEEN WILLISTON AND BLACKVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MPD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.