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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Columbia, SC

April 15, 2007Bamberg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 7:49 AM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 15, 2007, 7:49 AM EDT (11:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 8:15 AM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bamberg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:49 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
Apr 15, 8:02 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Ese Bamberg, SC	TREES DOWN OFF US HWY 78. REPORTED BY SCHP.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KCAE 151149
TORCAE
SCC009-151215-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0009.070415T1149Z-070415T1215Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 815 AM EDT

* AT 741 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH
  OF BAMBERG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

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 3317 8120 3304 8105 3318 8082 3333 8103

$$

TTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	32 min
Apr 14, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry, Saluda	26 min
Apr 14, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	26 min
Apr 15, 3:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	39 min
Apr 15, 3:32 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more	20 hr
Apr 15, 3:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	52 min
Apr 15, 4:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	45 min
Apr 15, 8:10 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Bamberg	35 min
Apr 15, 8:16 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Sumter	29 min
Apr 15, 8:31 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	29 min
Apr 15, 8:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lee, Sumter	33 min
Apr 15, 9:08 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	37 min
Apr 15, 9:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Orangeburg	26 min
Apr 15, 10:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	23 min
Apr 15, 3:48 PM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.