Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2006, 4:03 PM EDT for Lee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 26, 2006, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KCAE 262004
TORCAE
SCC061-262045-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0014.060426T2003Z-060426T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
403 PM EDT WED APR 26 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 445 PM EDT
* AT 401 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 20 MILES WEST OF
LYNCHBURG...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF SUMTER...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED AT LEAST 2 TORNADOES IN KERSHAW COUNTY.
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 3415 8042 3409 8041 3396 8017 3404 8000
3414 8014
$$
SJNThe 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, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 15 min |
| Apr 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 13 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 |
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.