Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 2000, 1:25 AM EST for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 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
- Dec 17, 2000, 1:25 AM EST (06:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2000, 2:30 AM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kershaw County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 170627 SVRCAE SCC055-170730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 125 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KERSHAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 230 AM EST. * AT 115 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN RICHLAND COUNTY MOVING TOWARD KERSHAW COUNTY. EXPECT WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LUGOFF AT 150 AM EST CAMDEN AT 200 AM EST A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR USUALLY OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. 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, 12:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 25 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, 2:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 25 min |
| Dec 17, 2:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.