Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 2:03 PM EST for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 31, 2002, 2:03 PM EST (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lexington County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:10 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Leesville, SC | Public reported golf ball size hail in Leesville. |
| Mar 31, 2:40 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Lexington, SC | Spotter reported 3/4 inch hail on hwy 378. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
959
WUUS52 KCAE 311903
SVRCAE
SCC063-311945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
202 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 245 PM EST.
* AT 200 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEESVILLE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LEESVILLE.
LEXINGTON.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.
RCCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 6:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 6:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 34 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.