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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Columbia, SC

May 10, 2005Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2005, 4:37 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2005, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Richmond County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 102039
SVRCAE
GAC245-102115-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0053.050510T2037Z-050510T2115Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 435 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.        
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR HEPHZIBAH...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF     
  FORT GORDON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR FORT GORDON BY 450 PM AND AUGUSTA AT 500 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 3332 8233 3325 8209 3331 8188 3354 8203

$$

SJN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 10, 2:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
240 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...
WEAK UPPER TROUGH SWINGING ACROSS N GA THIS AFTERNOON WITH
CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY DEVELOPING ACROSS NE GA/WESTERN CAROLINAS
AHEAD OF TROUGH. LOW LEVEL SHEAR IS WEAK BUT WITH LOW WET BULB
ZERO AND 500MB TEMPS AROUND -15 C...LARGE HAIL IS A POSSIBILITY
THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS INTO THIS
EVENING. UPPER TROUGH MOVES SOUTHEASTWARD TO NEAR GA COAST BY
WEDNESDAY MORNING. WITH SOME PVA STILL OVER THE CWA WEDNESDAY WILL
KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POP.

&&

.LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)...
UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY.
HOWEVER QUESTION REMAINS HOW FAR SOUTH BACK DOOR FRONT WILL
VENTURE ON FRI. GFS KEEPS FRONT MAINLY NORTH OF CWA WHILE NAM PUSHES
FRONT WELL INTO SC. FOR NOW WILL COMPROMISE AND ADVERTISE SLIGHT
CHANCE POP. FRONT SHOULD WASH OUT BY EARLY SATURDAY AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE ATLANTIC. SATURDAY LOOKS DRY. SLOW
MOVING COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST SUNDAY INTO EARLY
MONDAY SO WILL GO WITH LOW CHANCE POPS. FRONT SHOULD MOVE OFFSHORE
TUESDAY.

&&

.AVIATION...
GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON TO
MIDNIGHT...BUT STRONG SHORTWAVE AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL TRIGGER
SCATTERED CONVECTION THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. EXPECT BRIEF MVFR
CONDITIONS IN THE SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. DURING THE PREDAWN
HOURS...ETA FORECAST SOUNDING SHOW CONSIDERABLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
TO FAVOR IFR CEILINGS AND PATCHY FOG WITH VISIBILITIES 3 TO 5 MILES.
CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO VFR BY LATE MORNING.
&&

.CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SC...NONE.
GA...NONE.
&&

22/25

Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 6:00 AM EDT, 10 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
600 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-
111015-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
600 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH
CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA..

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH AFTERNOON
HEATING AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON WITH
HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE SEE
CAESPSCAE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 3:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
305 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     HAIL             2 SE SILVERSTREET       34.20N 81.69W
05/10/2005  0.75 INCH        NEWBERRY           SC   POST OFFICE

            PENNY SIZED HAIL

&&

BLP

Local storm report, May 10, 3:38 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
338 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0331 PM     HAIL             1 W BATESBURG           33.91N 81.56W
05/10/2005  1.00 INCH        SALUDA             SC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN BATESBURG TO ONE
            MILE WEST.

&&

BLP

Local storm report, May 10, 3:51 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
351 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 PM     HAIL             LEESVILLE               33.92N 81.51W
05/10/2005  1.75 INCH        LEXINGTON          SC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

&&

BLP

Local storm report, May 10, 3:55 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
355 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0350 PM     HAIL             6 NW MCCORMICK          33.97N 82.37W
05/10/2005  1.00 INCH        MCCORMICK          SC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL MCCORMICK TO 6 NW OF MCCORMICK

&&

BLP

Local storm report, May 10, 4:12 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
412 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0402 PM     HAIL             10 W AUGUSTA            33.46N 82.17W
05/10/2005  0.88 INCH        COLUMBIA           GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN APPLING

&&

BC

Local storm report, May 10, 4:22 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
422 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 PM     HAIL             EVANS                   33.51N 82.15W
05/10/2005  0.75 INCH        COLUMBIA           GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR EVANS

&&

BC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	36 min
May 10, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	41 min
May 10, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	29 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.