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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Columbia, SC

June 22, 2000Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:18 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2000, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Orangeburg County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 3:18 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Branchville, SC	Post Office reported large limbs down in Branchville.

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
Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 221918
SVRCAE
SCC075-222000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
318 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT.

* AT 317 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BRANCHVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF
  BAMBERG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BOWMAN AT 335 PM EDT

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS 
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT ANY HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF
OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLUMBIA.

LAT...LON 3333 8097 3316 8094 3318 8047 3340 8050

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	61 min
Jun 22, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	35 min
Jun 22, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	25 min
Jun 22, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	47 min
Jun 22, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry	34 min
Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	50 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	46 min
Jun 22, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	36 min
Jun 22, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	49 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	34 min
Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	49 min
Jun 22, 6:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Barnwell	26 min
Jun 22, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	49 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.