Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Columbia, SC

July 2, 2003Kershaw County, Sumter County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 1:40 AM EDT for Kershaw County, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2003, 1:40 AM EDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kershaw County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 1, 9:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

367 
WUUS52 KCAE 020540
SVRCAE
SCC055-085-020630-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
138 AM EDT WED JUL 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT.

* AT 130 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
   A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMDEN..MOVING        
   NORTHEAST AT   20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...   
   CAMDEN.
   WEDGEFIELD.
   REMBERT.

LAT...LON 3416 8047 3379 8036 3375 8059 3393 8065
          3404 8061 3406 8072 3421 8086 3437 8043

TTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 10:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Barnwell, Orangeburg	2 hr
Jul 1, 10:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Barnwell	31 min
Jul 2, 12:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	41 min
Jul 2, 12:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	38 min
Jul 2, 1:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Orangeburg	43 min
Jul 2, 2:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	39 min
Jul 2, 2:43 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Clarendon	47 min
Jul 2, 7:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Lee	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.