Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 10, 2000, 6:28 AM EST for Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Jan 10, 2000, 6:28 AM EST (11:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2000, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 6:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 101134 SVRCAE SCC037-065-101200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 628 AM EST MON JAN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCCORMICK COUNTY. EDGEFIELD COUNTY. * UNTIL 700 AM EST. * AT 619 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LINCOLN COUNTY SOUTHWARD INTO WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY.... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... EDGEFIELD AT 655 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. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/ JDB/RJL
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.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 10, 2:38 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 2:38 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOR DATE/TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 230 AM MON JAN 10 2000 INTERESTING FCST FOR THIS AM. WEDGE BNDRY LAYS ACROSS CWA WITH TEMPS/DEWPOINTS RANGING FROM AROUND 60 SOUTH TO MIDDLE 40S OVER FAR WESTERN AND NORTHERN COUNTIES. VIGOROUS S/W WIL GO NEG TILT AS SFC LOW BEGINS TO DEEPEN OVR MS VLY. STRONG H85 JET WILL MAKE ITS WAY THROUGH THE AREA AS H25 RIGHT ENTERANCE REGION WILL STAY TO OUR SOUTH WHERE MODELS ARE KEEPING THE GREATEST INSTABILITY. LOOKS LIKE SRN COUNTIES WILL GET THE BRUNT OF THE SEV WX. BUT CONCERN STILL LIES WITH LOCATION OF BNDRY. COULD ACT AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR THUNDER. LOOK OUT WARNGEN HERE WE COME... CURRENT FCST HAS GOOD HANDLE ON SITUATION. WILL GO MOSTLY SUNNY FOR THIS AFTERNOON WITH RAPID CLEARING BEHIND THE FRONT. W WINDS WILL KEEP TEMPS UP A BIT TODAY WITH NO REAL CAA COULD SEE TEMPS IN THE 70S. STRONG WINDS WILL WARRANT WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES FOR TODAY. CLEAR TONIGHT AS FWC HAS GOOD HANDLE ON FCST TEMPS. HIGH PRES BUILDING IN TUE WITH A NICE DAY IN STORE FOR EARLY JAN. WINDS WILL DIE DOWN TONIGHT. PRELIM CCF CAE TU 71/40/69/34/70 60/0/0/0/0 AGS TU 73/38/70/33/72 60/0$/0/0/0 .CAE...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR CWA FOR TDY. BARLOW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 10, 1:45 AM EST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-035-036- 037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-101600- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 145 AM EST MON JAN 10 2000 THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA: AIKEN BAMBERG BARNWELL CALHOUN CHESTERFIELD CLARENDON EDGEFIELD FAIRFIELD KERSHAW LANCASTER LEE LEXINGTON MCCORMICK NEWBERRY ORANGEBURG RICHLAND SALUDA SUMTER THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA: BURKE COLUMBIA LINCOLN MCDUFFIE RICHMOND ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS MORNING. A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT COULD HELP CAUSE SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. ISOLATED TORNADOES COULD ALSO OCCUR. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD END AROUND NOON AS DRIER AIR MOVES INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA. ALL INTERESTS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND KEEP POSTED ON WEATHER STATEMENTS...WATCHES... OR WARNINGS WHICH MAY BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. REMEMBER...A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR USUALLY OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. PLEASE SEE THE SHORT TERM FORECAST FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA FOR THE LATEST SHORT TERM FORECAST INFORMATION. THE NWWS ID IS CAENOWCAE AND THE WMO HEADER IS FPUS72 KCAE. RJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 7:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 23 min |
| Jan 10, 7:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.