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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Columbia, SC

January 13, 2005McCormick County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2005, 6:10 PM EST for McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2005, 6:10 PM EST (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2005, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County McCormick County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 5:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 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 
WFUS52 KCAE 132310
TORCAE
SCC065-132345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
609 PM EST THU JAN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 600 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH
  OF MOUNT CARMEL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON...
  MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL MCCORMICK COUNTY AT 620 PM EST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST FRIDAY MORNING
FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

LAT...LON 3388 8265 3387 8244 3435 8201 3444 8238

$$

LM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	39 days
Jan 13, 6:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	89 days

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.