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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2008, 7:11 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 15, 2008, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Burke County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 152312
TORCAE
GAC033-160000-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0027.080315T2311Z-080316T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
711 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 21 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MIDVILLE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF SANDERSVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WAYNESBORO AND SARDIS
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WHICH HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE...SEEK SHELTER.
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 3291 8229 3313 8228 3327 8213 3323 8209
3325 8206 3324 8195 3305 8155 3290 8175
3293 8183 3291 8195 3291 8208 3281 8214
3279 8218 3283 8233
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 283DEG 43KT 3303 8240
$$The 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 | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 22 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke, McDuffie, Richmond | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.