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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC

June 13, 2001Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 2:15 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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 13, 2001, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 2:22 PM EDTTornado F0Ft Jackson, SCMilitary Police reported sighting a touchdown near the golf course taking down several trees.

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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2001-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 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 2001-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

552 
WFUS52 KCAE 131815
TORCAE
SCC079-131845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
215 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT.

* AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT CONTAINED TWO DEVELOPING TORNADOES...
  OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF FT JACKSON. THE MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  EASTERN FT JACKSON
  NORTH OF EASTOVER NEAR US 76/378.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:47 PM EDTTornado WarningCAERichland28 min
Jun 13, 2:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAEKershaw, Richland, Sumter2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.