Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2000, 8:23 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. 4 reports 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
- Sep 25, 2000, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:33 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | North Augusta, SC | HAM spotter reported trees and powerlines down. |
| Sep 25, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | North Augusta, SC | An F0 took tops out of pine trees along SC hwy 421 between N Augusta and Gloverville |
| Sep 25, 8:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Beech Is, SC | Sheriff reported trees down. |
| Sep 25, 8:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Aiken, SC | EOC reported trees down in Bonnie View Estates. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCAE 260024 TORCAE SCC003-260100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 823 PM EDT MON SEP 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT. * AT 823 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER CLEARWATER...OR ABOUT OVER EAST BOUNDARY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GLOVERVILLE AT 830 PM EDT AIKEN AT 845 PM EDT GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. REPORT ANY HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN COLUMBIA. LAT...LON 3351 8204 3338 8189 3363 8156 3379 8175 ARDREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 46 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.