Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 2000, 12:50 AM EST for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
- Dec 17, 2000, 12:50 AM EST (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 1:15 AM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lexington County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 1:05 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Leesville, SC | Sheriff reported trees down. |
| Dec 17, 1:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Gilbert, SC | Sherff reported trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCAE 170551 SVRCAE SCC063-170615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1250 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 115 AM EST. * AT 1240 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF LEESVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF BATESBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHWESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY AT 100 AM EST RURAL NORTHERN LEXINGTON COUNTY AT 110 AM EST A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY DAMAGING WINDS TO YOUR C<OUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLUMBIA. RJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 11:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 26 min |
| Dec 17, 12:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 31 min |
| Dec 17, 1:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 52 min |
| Dec 17, 1:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 57 min |
| Dec 17, 1:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 65 min |
| Dec 17, 2:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 25 min |
| Dec 17, 2:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 35 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.