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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Columbia, SC

April 7, 2003Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2003, 6:07 AM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
Apr 7, 2003, 6:07 AM EDT (10:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 7, 2003, 6:30 AM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2003-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2003-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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

481 
WUUS52 KCAE 071007
SVRCAE
GAC033-071030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
605 AM EDT MON APR 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    NORTHWESTERN BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 AM EDT.

* AT 556 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KEYSVILLE..MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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

EXPECT DAMAGING HAIL WITH THIS STORM. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH ARE 
POSSIBLE AS WELL.

LAT...LON 3310 8228 3323 8222 3327 8227 3330 8218
          3323 8210 3321 8198

RJL/BC

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.