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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Columbia, SC

February 21, 2005Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2005, 8:07 PM EST for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Feb 21, 2005, 8:07 PM EST (01:07 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 8:30 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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
Feb 21, 7:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 220107
SVRCAE
GAC033-220130-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0005.050222T0107Z-050222T0130Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO

* UNTIL 830 PM EST

* AT 807 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SARDIS BY 830 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 3312 8224 3294 8228 3295 8167 3310 8159
      3318 8186

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 21, 8:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	35 min
Feb 21, 9:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	33 min
Feb 21, 9:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	36 min
Feb 21, 10:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	43 min
Feb 22, 1:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	33 min

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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.