Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 6:26 PM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bamberg County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bamberg, SC | Hwy Maint reported trees down on hwy 301 s of Bamberg. |
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, 10.4 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
- 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.
070 WUUS52 KCAE 222228 SVRCAE SCC009-222315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 626 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 617 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF DENMARK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN BAMBERG COUNTY AT 640 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED STRUCTURE. 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, 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 |
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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.