Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Columbia, SC

Issued

Aug 15, 2002, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)

Expired

Aug 15, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Columbia, SC

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kershaw County, SC

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

036 
WUUS52 KCAE 152135
SVRCAE
SCC055-152215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
533 PM EDT THU AUG 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    CENTRAL KERSHAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF CAMDEN..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...    
  DEKALB
  

LAT...LON 3434 8091 3417 8083 3434 8039 3452 8052

LCV/BC

NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 15, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
237 PM EDT THU AUG 15 2002

TONIGHT-SUNDAY DISCUSSION
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE CAE CWA. LAPS
SHOWS MOISTURE SURFACE FLUX CONVERGENCE TO GO ALONG WITH LIS -4 AND
CAPES OF 2000. ALTHOUGH UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...
EXPECT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. BERMUDA
RIDGE BACK OVER AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL
REMAIN AND AIRMASS WILL BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH WITH SURFACE HEATING IN
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE NEAR NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S AND
LOWS IN THE LOWER 70S.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION:
UPPER RIDGE OVER AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY BUT SHORT WAVE APPROACHES
ALONG WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT WHICH WILL PROBABLY DIE OUT. WILL
INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. AGAIN
HIGHS AND LOWS IN THE LOWER 90S AND LOWER 70S RESPECTIVELY. SHORT
WAVE IS GONE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS UPPER RIDGE TAKES HOLD AGAIN.
MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF CONVECTION BOTH DAYS
AND HIGH TEMPERATURES SHOULD RISE AT LEAST TO THE MID 90S.

FCSTID = 7
CAE   73  93  73  92 /  30  30  20  30
AGS   71  92  71  93 /  30  30  20  30
SSC   73  92  73  92 /  30  30  20  30
OGB   73  93  73  93 /  30  30  20  30

.CAE...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.

TTH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.