Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 10.3 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
- 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.
816 WUUS1 KCAE 052216 RRA SVRCAE SCC027-052300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 615 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN CLARENDON COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF SUMMERTON IN CLARENDON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 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. BC/MPD
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, Jul 5, 6:13 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
613 PM EDT SAT JUL 05 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
505 PM ELKO SC .50 INCH HAIL
07/05/97 BARNWELL TREES DOWN
520 PM 2 SW FORT MOTT SC WIND DAMAGE
07/05/97 CALHOUN FIRE CHIEF REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN HIS YARD
LMThe 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, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.