Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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
- Apr 8, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | North, SC | Sheriff reported trees down. |
| Apr 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | St Matthews, SC | Sheriff 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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCAE 081855 SVRCAE SCC017-075-079-081930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 252 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY. ORANGEBURG COUNTY. CALHOUN COUNTY. * UNTIL 330 PM EDT. * AT 242 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY SOUTH INTO ORANGEBURG COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATES DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MWC
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 Apr 8, 10:14 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 10:14 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1014 AM SAT APR 8 2000 CLOUDS INCREASING ACROSS THE AREA. FRONT EXTENDING FROM TRI-FFC-CSG ATTM AND STILL FCST TO REACH CAE AROUND 20Z. CONVECTION INCREASING JUST AHEAD OF FRONT WITH LIS -3 OVER WEST CNTRL GA. CHS SOUNDING GIVES 76 MAX TEMP AND FFC HAS 65. SO UPPER 60S WEST TO MID 70S EAST FOR HIGH TEMPS. TEMPS CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 60S. PLAN TO GO WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY THIS AFTN WITH CLEARING LATE. WIND FCST ON TRACK. NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED. .CAE...WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES THIS AFTERNOON. LM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-035-036- 037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-082215- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1120 AM EDT SAT APR 8 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 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT CROSSING THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND HAIL BETWEEN NOON AND 5 PM. THE FRONT WILL BE MOVE OF THE AREA BY 5 PM...THEREFORE ENDING THE THREAT OF STORMS. CURRENT DATA DOES NOT FAVOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THEREFORE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED. 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. LM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 51 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.