Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 11:28 AM EST for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 11:28 AM EST (16:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
166
WUUS52 KCAE 221628
SVRCAE
SCC075-221715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1126 AM EST SAT FEB 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 1215 PM EST.
* AT 1118 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES WEST OF EDISTO..MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM
INCLUDE...NORTHERN ORANGEBURG
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH.
LAT...LON 3361 8134 3344 8126 3337 8104 3353 8081
3370 8104The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 8:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 9:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 10:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 10:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 11:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Richland | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 11:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell, Calhoun, Kershaw | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 11:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 12:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 12:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 56 min |
| Feb 22, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 12:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 40 min |
| Feb 22, 1:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 1:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 1:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2003Every 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.