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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 2007Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 9:11 PM EDT for Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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
Jun 12, 2007, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2007, 9:48 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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, 9:15 PM EDTHAIL 1Augusta, GAQUARTER SIZE HAIL IN AUGUSTA LOCATED ON WILLOW RD. AND AUGUSTA HWY.
Jun 12, 9:20 PM EDTHAIL 120 W Augusta, GAQUARTER SIZE HAIL IN THE TOWN OF APPLING.

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2007-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1564 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2007-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
1564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KCAE 130111
SVRCAE
GAC073-245-130200-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0098.070613T0111Z-070613T0200Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 906 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARLEM TO
  AUGUSTA AND MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE GROVETOWN...FORT
  GORDON AND HEPHZIBAH

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 3357 8207 3345 8192 3337 8195 3330 8188
      3331 8185 3329 8187 3326 8185 3326 8208
      3331 8218 3327 8228 3331 8233 3337 8230
      3347 8237 3353 8238

$$

TTH
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS52 KCAE 130134
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
933 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

GAC073-245-130200-
/O.CON.KCAE.SV.W.0098.000000T0000Z-070613T0200Z/
RICHMOND GA-COLUMBIA GA-
933 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR COLUMBIA AND RICHMOND COUNTIES...

AT 928 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR HEPHZIBAH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT GORDON...
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

SEVERAL REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS 
STORM. 

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL 
AREAS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THIS 
EVENING.

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 3347 8237 3345 8192 3337 8195 3330 8188
      3331 8185 3329 8187 3326 8185 3326 8208
      3331 8218 3327 8228 3331 8233 3337 8230

$$

HC
000 
WWUS52 KCAE 130148
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
947 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

GAC073-245-130157-
/O.CAN.KCAE.SV.W.0098.000000T0000Z-070613T0200Z/
RICHMOND GA-COLUMBIA GA-
947 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COLUMBIA AND RICHMOND COUNTIES
IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3347 8237 3345 8192 3337 8195 3330 8188
      3331 8185 3329 8187 3326 8185 3326 8208
      3331 8218 3327 8228 3331 8233 3337 8230

$$

TTH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia, Lincoln50 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.