Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 892
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Dec 4, 2005, 5:54 PM EST for 23 counties in Georgia; Robeson County, North Carolina; 26 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2005, 5:54 PM EST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 2005, 11:19 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Burke County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Robeson County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 45 min |
| Dec 4, 6:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Richland | 39 min |
| Dec 4, 6:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 53 min |
| Dec 4, 6:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Newberry | 25 min |
| Dec 4, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 25 min |
| Dec 4, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 40 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1426 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 3:00 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 6 more | 90 min |
| Dec 4, 1:24 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Cobb and 24 more | 96 min |
| Dec 4, 2:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 4, 4:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts and 69 more | 90 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.