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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Columbia, SC

April 15, 2007Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 2:47 AM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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: Apr 15, 2007, 2:47 AM EDT (06:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 15, 2:01 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCAE 150648
TORCAE
GAC033-150730-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0008.070415T0647Z-070415T0730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
247 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 AM EDT

* AT 246 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MIDVILLE...
  OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF MILLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WAYNESBORO BY 300 AM EDT...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA.

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 3295 8228 3284 8231 3280 8221 3280 8216
      3292 8208 3292 8176 3305 8157 3326 8190
      3323 8194 3324 8211

$$

AWP/MWC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KCAE 150717
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
315 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

GAC033-150730-
/O.CON.KCAE.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070415T0730Z/
BURKE GA-
315 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 AM EDT FOR BURKE
COUNTY...

AT 313 AM EDT...THE FIRE STATION IN MUNNERLYN REPORTED 50 TO 60 MPH 
WIND GUSTS.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO...LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SARDIS...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. 

THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SARDIS AREA. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE 
WARNING INCLUDE GIRARD.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA.

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 3295 8228 3284 8231 3280 8221 3280 8216
      3292 8208 3292 8176 3305 8157 3326 8190
      3323 8194 3323 8211

$$

AWP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 3:32 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CAE	Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond	20 hr
Apr 15, 3:48 PM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond	29 hr

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.