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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Columbia, SC

March 16, 2000Chesterfield County, Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 4:30 PM EST for Chesterfield County, Kershaw 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 2000, 4:30 PM EST (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 2000, 5:15 PM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chesterfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 162131
SVRCAE
SCC025-055-162215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
430 PM EST THU MAR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.
  NORTHEASTERN KERSHAW COUNTY.

* UNTIL 515 PM EST.

* AT 422 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMDEN...OR ABOUT 27
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTERFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHESTERFIELD AT 510 PM EST.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT ANY HVAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF
OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3448 8050 3436 8034 3476 7983 3493 8005

RJL/LCV

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 5:22 PM ESTTornado WarningCAECalhoun, Richland38 min
Mar 16, 6:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESumter30 min
Mar 16, 6:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee45 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.