Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2000, 1:10 AM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 23, 2000, 1:10 AM EDT (05:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2000, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bamberg County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 1:25 AM EDT | Tornado F1 | Denmark, SC | Storm survey found a weak F1 touched in Denmark on Lee Rd. It took down 7 pecan trees in an orchard, overturned a doublewide mobile home, and damaged roof to 7 homes. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 12:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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
- 1102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KCAE 230510 TORCAE SCC009-230545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 110 AM EDT SAT SEP 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 145 AM EDT. * AT 110 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DENMARK...NEAR THE BAMBERG BARNWELL COUNTY LINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DENMARK AT 130 AM EDT BAMBERG AT 140 AM 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 12:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 40 min |
| Sep 23, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 34 min |
| Sep 23, 1:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 1:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 2:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 4 hr |
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.