Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Columbia, SC

November 19, 2003Lexington County, Newberry County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 19, 2003, 7:10 AM EST for Lexington County, Newberry 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: Nov 19, 2003, 7:10 AM EST (12:10 UTC)
Expired: Nov 19, 2003, 8:00 AM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 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
Nov 19, 2:20 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 9.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 191210
SVRCAE
SCC063-071-191300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
710 AM EST WED NOV 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    SOUTHEASTERN NEWBERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
    NORTHWESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 800 AM EST.

* AT 704 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLE MOUNTAIN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
    CHAPIN.
    LITTLE MOUNTAIN.
    PEAK.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED
WARNING.

LAT...LON 3419 8133 3412 8130 3408 8123 3397 8152
          3407 8146 3408 8153 3413 8162 3426 8133

MC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 19, 7:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	47 min
Nov 19, 8:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun	36 min
Nov 19, 8:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	42 min
Nov 19, 8:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.