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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Columbia, SC

April 12, 2007Lancaster County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2007, 1:05 AM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
Apr 12, 2007, 1:05 AM EDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 2007, 1:30 AM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lancaster County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 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
Apr 12, 1:07 AM EDTHAIL 0.8820 Nnw Lancaster, SCNICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC AT CONVENIENCE STORE AT HWY 521 AND FORT MILL HWY.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 11, 11:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2007-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2007-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 679 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
679 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
961 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 120506
SVRCAE
SCC057-120530-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0021.070412T0505Z-070412T0530Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
105 AM EDT THU APR 12 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 130 AM EDT

* AT 1259 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER   
  YORK COUNTY...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED 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 3502 8090 3494 8088 3484 8087 3482 8089
      3481 8080 3493 8078 3504 8088

$$

LM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 12:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry, Saluda26 min
Apr 12, 1:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry30 min
Apr 12, 2:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken31 min
Apr 12, 2:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg36 min
Apr 12, 3:16 AM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAEAiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more17 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.