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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Columbia, SC

April 26, 2006Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2006, 3:04 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 26, 2006, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2006, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kershaw County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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
Apr 26, 3:21 PM EDT	TORNADO	Lugoff, SC	LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON ALDEN ROAD WEST OF LUGOFF.
Apr 26, 3:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Lugoff, SC	BUILDING DAMAGE IN LUGOFF.

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

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 26, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 575 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCAE 261904
TORCAE
SCC055-261930-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0011.060426T1904Z-060426T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
304 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 303 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
  LUGOFF...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENTSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  25 MPH.

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 3429 8081 3417 8083 3423 8053 3435 8054
      3441 8060

$$

SJN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCAE 261925
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
324 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006

SCC055-261934-
/O.EXP.KCAE.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-060426T1930Z/
KERSHAW SC-
324 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR KERSHAW COUNTY...

LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR ALDEN ROAD. 
PERSONS IN LUGOFF AND CAMDEN SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH
CAROLINA.

LAT...LON 3429 8081 3417 8083 3423 8053 3435 8054
      3441 8060

$$

AWP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	46 min
Apr 26, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	45 min
Apr 26, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland	48 min
Apr 26, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington	43 min
Apr 26, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	29 min
Apr 26, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	39 min
Apr 26, 1:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Newberry	45 min
Apr 26, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	30 min
Apr 26, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	42 min
Apr 26, 2:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland, Sumter	45 min
Apr 26, 2:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Fairfield	44 min
Apr 26, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	39 min
Apr 26, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	42 min
Apr 26, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	41 min
Apr 26, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Kershaw	15 min
Apr 26, 3:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Clarendon	13 min
Apr 26, 4:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lee	42 min
Apr 26, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	46 min
Apr 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	39 min
Apr 26, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon	51 min
Apr 26, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	51 min

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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.