Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:35 PM EDT for Lee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lee County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bishopville, 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 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
186 WUUS52 KCAE 221935 SVRCAE SCC061-222000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 335 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT. * AT 332 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISHOPVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN LEE COUNTY AT 350 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 3433 8038 3415 8037 3415 7978 3438 7980
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, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.