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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Columbia, SC

February 4, 2006Fairfield County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 4, 2006, 11:33 AM EST for Fairfield County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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: Feb 4, 2006, 11:33 AM EST (16:33 UTC)
Expired: Feb 4, 2006, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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
Feb 4, 11:43 AM EST	TSTM WND DMG	10 Wsw Blythewood, SC	8 INCH DIAMETER TREE AND NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN.
Feb 4, 11:43 AM EST	TORNADO	10 Wsw Blythewood, SC	SMALL F0 TORNADO INTERMITTENTLY TOUCHED DOWN FROM NEAR STATE ROAD 944 IN RICHLAND COUNTY AT 1143 AM TO CEDAR LAKE DRIVE IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AT 1151 AM. THE LENGTH OF THE DAMAGE PATH WAS 5 MILES...AND THE WIDTH 60 YARDS. TREES WERE DOWNED.

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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCAE 041634
TORCAE
SCC039-079-041700-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0006.060204T1633Z-060204T1700Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1133 AM EST SAT FEB 4 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL NOON EST

* AT 1130 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR IRMO MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  RICHLAND COUNTY JUST NORTHEAST OF 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 3409 8128 3404 8120 3426 8092 3435 8111

$$

MC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 4, 4:00 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more	20 hr

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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.