Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2007, 12:38 AM EST for Edgefield County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Mar 2, 2007, 12:38 AM EST (05:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edgefield County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 12:47 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Saluda, SC | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. |
| Mar 2, 12:50 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Edgefield, SC | DAMAGE TO A MOBILE HOME. TREES REPORTED DOWN COUNTY WIDE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:27 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KCAE 020541
SVRCAE
SCC037-081-020630-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0007.070302T0538Z-070302T0630Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1238 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SALUDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
EDGEFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 130 AM EST
* AT 1230 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS IN EDGEFIELD AND SALUDA COUNTIES. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LIKELY SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SALUDA AND EDGEFIELD.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND DOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
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 3371 8218 3355 8203 3381 8168 3404 8151
3416 8183
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 12:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 1:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 1:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 2:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 82 min |
| Mar 2, 2:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Orangeburg | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 3:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 3:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 3:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 41 min |
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.