Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 3:18 PM EDT for McCormick 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, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
019
WFUS52 KCAE 061918
TORCAE
SCC065-061945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
317 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT.
* AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST NORTH OF MCCORMICK
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
LAT...LON 3410 8233 3392 8236 3389 8215 3397 8205
MWCThe 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, 3:30 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 |
| 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.