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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC

January 13, 2005McCormick County, South Carolina; Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 2005, 6:26 PM EST for McCormick County, South Carolina; Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2005, 6:26 PM EST (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 39 days
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McCormick County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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
Jan 13, 5:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 132326
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-132345-
/X.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0001.050113T2326Z-050113T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
626 PM EST THU JAN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 625 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER MCDUFFIE
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF THOMSON...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.

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.

LAT...LON 3361 8247 3348 8239 3368 8225 3376 8227
      3382 8233

$$

SJN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 212041
SVRCAE
GAC073-SCC065-212100-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0001.050221T2041Z-050221T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
341 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EST

* AT 335 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
  MILES SOUTH OF PARKSVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF EVANS...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3368 8226 3369 8224 3381 8226 3378 8216
      3372 8218 3364 8210 3360 8212 3355 8205
      3352 8210 3358 8227 3366 8227

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 6:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	McCormick	35 min
Jan 13, 6:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	89 days
Jan 13, 5:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	McDuffie	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.