Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2000, 6:04 PM EDT for Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barnwell County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Williston, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.
000 WFUS52 KCAE 222204 TORCAE SCC011-222230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 604 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BARNWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT. * AT 602 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BLACKVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF DENMARK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR 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.
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, 6:26 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.