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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Columbia, SC

July 22, 2000Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 1:47 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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: Jul 22, 2000, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fairfield County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 22, 2:10 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Jenkinsville, SC	Public and damage survey reported golf ball size hail hwy 383.
Jul 22, 2:15 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Jenkinsville, SC	Damage survey confirmed an F0 touched down on hwy 383 and took down trees and did minor damage to a roof on a home.

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
Jul 22, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 2668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

624 
WFUS52 KCAE 221748
TORCAE
SCC039-221830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
147 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT.

* AT 145 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF
  WINNSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WINNSBORO AT 210 PM EDT
  WINNSBORO MILLS AT 215 PM EDT

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD

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

LAT...LON 3447 8137 3429 8141 3419 8100 3441 8094

ARDREY/MORRISON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	30 min
Jul 22, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry	46 min
Jul 22, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lancaster	40 min
Jul 22, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	47 min
Jul 22, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	41 min
Jul 22, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	30 min
Jul 22, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	32 min
Jul 22, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	44 min
Jul 22, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	40 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.