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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Columbia, SC

November 11, 2002Newberry County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 6:36 AM EST for Newberry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 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, 6:36 AM EST (11:36 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 2002, 7:30 AM EST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Newberry County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:35 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
Nov 11, 6:42 AM EST	Tornado F1	Silverstreet, SC	An F1 tornado took down many trees and powerlines in rural Newberry county nera SC hwy 48. No damage was done to what few homes that are out there.
Nov 11, 7:35 AM EST	Tornado F1	Pomaria, SC	An F1 tornado blew down an 80 ft long farm shed, took down many trees, and did minor damage to a couple of homes. The path ran from Central School rd (SC hwy 320), across SC hwy 202 to SC hwy 514.

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 1159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 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 111136
TORCAE
SCC071-111230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
635 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
    NEWBERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 730 AM EST.

* AT 633 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 20 MILES WEST OF
  NEWBERRY..MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
    NEWBERRY.
    PROSPERITY.
    CHAPPELLS.

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

JB/CDL

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, 6:11 AM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	McCormick	49 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

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.