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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Columbia, SC

November 24, 2004Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2004, 12:34 PM EST for Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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: Nov 24, 2004, 12:34 PM EST (17:34 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 1:15 PM EST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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
Nov 24, 10:40 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 241734
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-189-241815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1233 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 115 PM EST

* AT 1231 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF LINCOLNTON TO 15 MILES
  WEST OF THOMSON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF
  WASHINGTON TO 23 MILES SOUTH OF WASHINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HARLEM AND EVANS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1, 8 0 0,
7 7 5, 7 1 9 9.

LAT...LON 3397 8262 3360 8264 3329 8243 3353 8210
      3379 8233

$$

CDL/SN

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.