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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 2001Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 7:14 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 12, 2001, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Orangeburg County, SC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 242 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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 122315
TORCAE
SCC075-122345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
714 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 714 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  BRANCHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
    BOWMAN.
    WILKINSON HEIGHTS.

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

LAT...LON 3332 8102 3319 8086 3344 8053 3360 8072

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:16 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEBamberg29 min
Jun 12, 7:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken, Lexington39 min
Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg27 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.