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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Columbia, SC

June 22, 2000Lexington County, Newberry County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:56 PM EDT for Lexington County, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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: Jun 22, 2000, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 4:12 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Newberry, SC	Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.
Jun 22, 4:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Chapin, SC	Sheriff reported trees down.
Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Irmo, SC	NWS employee observed several trees falling on homes during a downburst. Many trees were down around the Irmo area along with powerlines.

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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

976 
WUUS52 KCAE 221956
SVRCAE
SCC063-071-222030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN NEWBERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  NORTHERN LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.

* AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PROSPERITY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF NEWBERRY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY AT 410 PM EDT
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN NEWBERRY COUNTY AT 410 PM EDT
  RURAL NORTHERN LEXINGTON COUNTY AT 420 PM EDT

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

BOATERS ON LAKE MURRAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE PORT.

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

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, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	25 min
Jun 22, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	47 min
Jun 22, 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.