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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Columbia, SC

May 22, 2006Bamberg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2006, 5:12 PM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
May 22, 2006, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bamberg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2006-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 728 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2006-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -76 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Barnwell47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.