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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Columbia, SC

May 11, 2008Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2008, 4:57 AM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 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: May 11, 2008, 4:57 AM EDT (08:57 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2008, 5:15 AM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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
May 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 11, 2:37 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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: 1834 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 11.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000
WUUS52 KCAE 110857
SVRCAE
GAC181-110915-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0049.080511T0857Z-080511T0915Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
457 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 AM EDT

* AT 455 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF
  LINCOLNTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 37 MPH.

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

REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA TOLL FREE
AT 1 800 7 7 5 7 1 9 9.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

LAT...LON 3394 8252 3388 8246 3373 8224 3371 8224
      3366 8249 3378 8259 3384 8260 3385 8259
      3387 8262 3390 8262
TIME...MOT...LOC 0857Z 242DEG 32KT 3385 8253

$$

SJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	36 min
May 11, 3:54 AM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond	40 hr
May 11, 7:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	71 min
May 11, 7:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Burke	30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.