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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 2001Bamberg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 7:16 PM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 12, 2001, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Bamberg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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
Jun 12, 7:33 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Ehrhardt, SC	A small F0 took down some trees and powerlines in Ehrhardt.

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 12, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.

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: 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 122317
TORCAE
SCC009-122345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 716 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BAMBERG COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAMBERG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN BAMBERG

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 CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1-800-775-7199.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	31 min
Jun 12, 7:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Aiken, Lexington	39 min
Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	27 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.