Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1999, 3:08 PM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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 11, 1999, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1999, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bamberg County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Bamberg, SC | Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail in town of Bamberg. |
| Jul 11, 3:23 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Bamberg, SC | Newspaper reported trees down. One fell on propane tanks and ingnited a large blaze. |
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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 2237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia | 53 min |
| Jul 11, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 2 hr |
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.