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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Columbia, SC

August 17, 2007Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2007, 5:52 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
Aug 17, 2007, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 2007, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 17, 6:10 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG3 Ne Lincolnton, GALINCOLN COUNTY DOT REPORTED SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON US HWY 378 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLNTON. TIME ESTIMATED.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2007-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 297 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2007-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
297 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 172152
SVRCAE
GAC181-172230-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0178.070817T2152Z-070817T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
552 PM EDT FRI AUG 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF LINCOLNTON...
  AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE LINCOLNTON AREA AND
  AREA NORTH AND EAST OF LINCOLNTON.

EXPECT DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA TOLL FREE
AT 1 800 7 7 5 7 1 9 9.

LAT...LON 3389 8251 3388 8244 3386 8243 3386 8239
      3383 8235 3370 8231 3366 8250 3367 8251
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 353DEG 16KT 3381 8244

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke62 min
Aug 17, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.