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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC

February 14, 2000Aiken County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 14, 2000, 4:58 AM EST for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 2000, 4:58 AM EST (09:58 UTC)
Expired
Feb 14, 2000, 5:30 AM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Aiken County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2000-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2000-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 
WFUS52 KCAE 140959
TORCAE
SCC003-141030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
458 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  AIKEN COUNTY.
  

* UNTIL 530 AM EST.

* AT 449 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  GLOVERVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF CLEARWATER...MOVING EAST AT
  60 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3356 8186 3339 8182 3349 8106 3371 8112

RJL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 2:18 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELancaster27 min
Feb 14, 2:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington32 min
Feb 14, 3:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield30 min
Feb 14, 4:44 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Edgefield31 min
Feb 14, 5:39 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg51 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.