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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Columbia, SC

May 6, 2003McCormick County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 3:57 PM EDT for McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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: May 6, 2003, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McCormick County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
May 6, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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: 386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

488 
WUUS52 KCAE 061957
SVRCAE
SCC065-062045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
355 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
    SOUTHERN MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT.

* AT 351 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF PARKSVILLE..MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
    PARKSVILLE
    PLUM BRANCH.

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

GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN LINCOLN COUNTY WITH THIS 
STORM. 

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND LARGE 
HAIL.

LAT...LON 3391 8246 3389 8216 3379 8214 3376 8218
          3371 8218 3363 8211 3365 8220 3373 8224

MWC/BC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 1:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield	22 min
May 6, 1:32 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Saluda	28 min
May 6, 2:01 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	4 hr
May 6, 2:09 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lexington	36 min
May 6, 2:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Aiken	49 min
May 6, 2:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	43 min
May 6, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	50 min
May 6, 3:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	McCormick	27 min
May 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	45 min
May 6, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Lexington	49 min
May 6, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield	46 min
May 6, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	46 min
May 6, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	42 min
May 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee, Sumter	46 min
May 6, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun	46 min
May 6, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.