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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2007, 1:04 AM EST for Columbia County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 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
- Mar 2, 2007, 1:04 AM EST (06:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Columbia County, GA, McDuffie County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:04 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.
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 |
| Mar 1, 8:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 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 020604 SVRCAE GAC073-189-020700- /O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0009.070302T0604Z-070302T0700Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 104 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 200 AM EST * AT 1256 AM EST....NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DEARING IN SOUTHERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE HARLEM. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A HOUSE OR OTHER STURDY STRUCTURE IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. 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 3341 8247 3333 8238 3348 8213 3360 8227 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | McDuffie | 24 min |
| Mar 1, 8:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 12:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln | 19 min |
| Mar 2, 1:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 59 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.