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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Columbia, SC

April 26, 2006Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2006, 3:30 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 15 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, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2006, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 15 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 19:31 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, 3:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Lugoff, SC	BUILDING DAMAGE IN LUGOFF.
Apr 26, 3:35 PM EDT	TORNADO	5 Ssw Camden, SC	SPOTTER REPORTED INTERMITTENT TOUCH DOWN WITH SOME TREES DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 521. PATH WAS 5 MILES SSW TO 6 MILES SSE OF CAMDEN.

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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 261931
TORCAE
SCC055-261945-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0012.060426T1930Z-060426T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
330 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 345 PM EDT

* AT 325 PM EDT...THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT CONFIRMED A TORNADO ON THE
  GROUND 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUGOFF...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA...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 3423 8074 3413 8072 3414 8052 3434 8037

$$

SJN

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, 3:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Kershaw	26 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.