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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Columbia, SC

July 14, 2005Saluda County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2005, 4:04 PM EDT for Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2005, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2005-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2893 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2005-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2893 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.