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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 2007Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 8:40 PM EDT for Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 12, 2007, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2007, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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
Jun 12, 9:00 PM EDTHAIL 0.8812 Sse Lincolnton, GANICKEL SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC OFF MISTLETOE ROAD ABOUT 2 MILES SW OF MISTLETOE STATE PARK.

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
Jun 12, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1447 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1447 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1268 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 130040
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-130130-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0096.070613T0040Z-070613T0130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
840 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 836 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF WASHINGTON...AND MOVING
  SOUTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3377 8231 3375 8255 3354 8240 3357 8215

$$

TTH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia, Richmond37 min
Jun 12, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke55 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.