Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 5:18 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Aiken County, SC
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, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
852
WUUS52 KCAE 062118
SVRCAE
SCC003-062145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
518 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN AIKEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.
* AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW ELLENTON..MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED
WARNING.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND DIME
SIZE HAIL.
LAT...LON 3334 8183 3324 8175 3361 8131 3370 8144
SJNThe 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, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 48 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 |
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.