Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 15, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 5:44 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Se Blythewood, SC | SPOTTER REPORT LARGE HAIL AT LONG CREEK AREA. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 11:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KCAE 152130
TORCAE
SCC079-152200-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0016.080315T2130Z-080315T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
530 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF IRMO...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DENTSVILLE
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
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.
LAT...LON 3407 8113 3410 8121 3409 8126 3412 8130
3420 8125 3421 8123 3418 8118 3421 8117
3425 8083 3418 8086 3407 8074
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 264DEG 49KT 3415 8117
$$
SJNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 1:34 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 15, 9:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 17 min |
| Mar 15, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 4:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 4:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 4:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Lexington, Saluda | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lee | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 5:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry, Saluda | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Richland, Sumter | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Richland | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 14 min |
| Mar 15, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 46 min |
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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.