Alert archive / South Carolina / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this high wind warning at Oct 24, 2008, 5:17 PM EDT for 9 counties in South Carolina; Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 103 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2008, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2008, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 103 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
Counties Burke County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:20 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 8 Nne Leesville, SC | AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN NORTH OF LEESVILLE NEAR LAKE MURRAY. |
| Oct 24, 5:22 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 1 E Batesburg, SC | LEXINGTON COUNTY EM REPORTED SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN JUST EAST OF BATESBURG. |
| Oct 24, 5:22 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Chapin, SC | LEXINGTON COUNTY EM REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN AND AROUND CHAPIN. |
| Oct 24, 5:45 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Chapin, SC | SPOTTER REPORTED METAL ROOF ON HOME BEGINNING TO BE PEELED OFF. |
| Oct 24, 5:50 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 56 | 5 Wsw Irmo, SC | 56 MPH MEASURED ON FLOTILLA ISLAND ON LAKE MURRAY |
| Oct 24, 5:57 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Chapin, SC | TREES DOWN IN CHAPIN AREA |
| Oct 24, 6:09 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 5 Sw Irmo, SC | PUBLIC REPORTS TREES DOWN ON DOCKS AT SHULL ISLAND ON LAKE MURRAY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KCAE 242117 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 517 PM EDT FRI OCT 24 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... GAZ077-SCZ015-020>022-027-028-030-035>037-041-242300- /O.NEW.KCAE.HW.W.0001.081024T2117Z-081024T2300Z/ BURKE-LANCASTER-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-LEXINGTON-RICHLAND- AIKEN-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-BAMBERG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAYNESBORO...LANCASTER...ELGIN... NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN...LUGOFF...WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE... LEXINGTON...RED BANK...COLUMBIA...AIKEN...NORTH AUGUSTA... BARNWELL...WILLISTON...BLACKVILLE...ORANGEBURG...ST. MATTHEWS... BAMBERG...DENMARK 517 PM EDT FRI OCT 24 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. AN AREA OF STRONGER WINDS HAS DEVELOPED IN THE MIDLANDS AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THROUGH 7 PM. SOME WIND DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE WINDS. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ TTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Lee, Orangeburg, Sumter | 107 min |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in South Carolina, 2008High Wind Warnings in Georgia, 2008Every high wind warning in 2008
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.