Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Columbia, SC

January 14, 2005Aiken County, Fairfield County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2005, 12:43 AM EST for Aiken County, Fairfield County, Richland County, South Carolina. 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 14, 2005, 12:43 AM EST (05:43 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 39 days
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Aiken County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 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, 11:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 140543
SVRCAE
SCC039-079-140615-
/X.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0003.050114T0543Z-050114T0615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1243 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WINNSBORO
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...IRMO.

* UNTIL 115 AM EST

* AT 1236 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF IRMO...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WINNSBORO AND WINNSBORO MILLS BY 1255 AM EST

LAT...LON 3399 8065 3402 8061 3409 8062 3406 8072
      3418 8086 3424 8084 3425 8083 3422 8116
      3454 8088 3455 8117 3430 8135 3424 8131
      3420 8134 3417 8129 3413 8131 3406 8111
      3384 8097 3375 8060

$$

AWP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 212152
SVRCAE
SCC003-212215-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0003.050221T2152Z-050221T2215Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  AIKEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 452 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  JACKSON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUGUSTA...AND MOVING EAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  7 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ELLENTON BY 500 PM EST

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 3342 8189 3324 8190 3320 8174 3342 8149

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 7:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Newberry, Saluda	89 days
Jan 13, 11:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	39 days

Nearby

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.