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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Columbia, SC

July 28, 2005Columbia County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2005, 4:39 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2005, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2005, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbia County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 28, 4:40 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 0Martinez, GAHAM RADIO OPERATOR KE4TTA HOME WEATHER STATION REPORTED 55-60 MPH WINDS AT COLA/BELAIRE STREETS.
Jul 28, 4:40 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 60Martinez, GAHAM RADIO OPERATOR KE4TTA HOME WEATHER STATION REPORTED 55-60 MPH WINDS AT COLA/BELAIRE STREETS.
Jul 28, 4:45 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMartinez, GASHERIFF REPORTED TREES...POWERLINES...AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS DOWN FROM MARTINEZ TO EVANS.
Jul 28, 4:45 PM EDTHAIL 0.75Martinez, GASKYWARN KG4WBB REPORTED PENNY SIZE HAIL AT INTERSECTION OF BOBBY JONES EXPRESSWAY AND WASHINGTON RD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 555 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 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
555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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 282039
SVRCAE
GAC073-282115-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0148.050728T2039Z-050728T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
439 PM EDT THU JUL 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND   
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR   
GROVETOWN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVANS BY 500 PM EDT
  MARTINEZ BY 515 PM EDT

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 3345 8228 3341 8222 3352 8204 3368 8225

$$

SJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 4:07 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryCAEBurke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond13 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.