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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2006, 5:52 PM EDT for McDuffie 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
- Apr 3, 2006, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2006, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McDuffie County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KCAE 032157 SVRCAE GAC189-032230- /O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0013.060403T2152Z-060403T2230Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 552 PM EDT MON APR 3 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS LIKELY BECOMING SEVERE. THE STORM WAS APPROACHING THE I-20 AREA OF WESTERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT THE AREA ALONG AND NORTH OF I-20 IN MCDUFFIE COUNTY. EXPECT DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1, 800, 7 7 5, 7 1 9 9. LAT...LON 3360 8266 3346 8258 3344 8236 3364 8248 $$ RJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:31 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 18 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 43 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.