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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC

January 13, 2006Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2006, 5:09 PM EST for Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 13 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2006, 5:09 PM EST (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2006, 5:22 PM EST
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 13, 5:18 PM EST	TORNADO	4 Wnw Irmo, SC	A WATERSPOUT BRIEFLY CAME ONSHORE SOUTHWEST OF BALLENTINE AND TOOK DOWN A COUPLE OF TREES. NO OTHER DAMAGE WAS REPORTED.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCAE 132210
TORCAE
SCC063-079-132230-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0001.060113T2209Z-060113T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
509 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 504 PM EST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OVER THE
  NORTHEASTERN PART OF LAKE MURRAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  IRMO...

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, IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. 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.

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 3411 8136 3402 8120 3424 8096 3422 8127

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCAE 132222
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
522 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006

SCC063-079-132232-
/O.CAN.KCAE.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-060113T2230Z/
RICHLAND SC-LEXINGTON SC-
522 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LEXINGTON AND RICHLAND COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...

AT 522 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED.

LAT...LON 3411 8136 3402 8120 3424 8096 3422 8127

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:28 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more	31 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.