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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Columbia, SC

May 10, 2005Columbia County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2005, 4:31 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
May 10, 2005, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2005, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbia County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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 2005-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 102034
SVRCAE
GAC073-102100-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0052.050510T2031Z-050510T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
431 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT.

* AT 425 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING         
  NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GROVETOWN AND    
  MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED NICKEL SIZE HAIL     
  IN APPLING.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR EVANS BY 455 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 3358 8231 3344 8222 3355 8204 3361 8218

$$

SJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia36 min
May 10, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcDuffie41 min
May 10, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichmond38 min

Nearby

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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.