Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 6:11 AM EST for McCormick County, South Carolina; Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
- Nov 11, 2002, 6:11 AM EST (11:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, GA, McCormick County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 6:15 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Goshen, GA | A strong F0 took down trees about 1 mile east of Chennault in very rural area. |
| Nov 11, 6:20 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Bordeaux, SC | An F0 tornado took down trees and powerlines in rural McCormick County. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 5:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 6:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 7:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 7:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 38 min |
| Nov 11, 7:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Saluda | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 7:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 7:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 7:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 7:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 53 min |
| Nov 11, 7:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 7:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 8:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 8:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 23 min |
| Nov 11, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 8:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 8:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 56 min |
| Nov 11, 8:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 52 min |
| Nov 11, 8:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 48 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.