Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2008, 7:14 PM EDT for Bamberg County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bamberg County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:33 PM EDT | TORNADO | Branchville, SC | EMERGENCY DISPATCH REPORTS NUMEROUS COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTAL STRUCTURES DAMAGED OR DESTROYED IN THE TOWN OF BRANCHVILLE. |
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, 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 76 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 152314
TORCAE
SCC009-075-160000-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0028.080315T2314Z-080316T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
714 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 713 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR DENMARK...
MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BAMBERG...ORANGEBURG...BRANCHVILLE...BOWMAN AND HOLLY HILL
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS STORM WHICH HAS THE POTENTIAL TO
PRODUCE GOLF BALL SIZE 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 3329 8024 3326 8029 3325 8042 3332 8051
3313 8086 3306 8089 3308 8095 3302 8108
3311 8120 3323 8122 3357 8110 3336 8023
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 284DEG 47KT 3334 8109
$$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 | 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, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland | 30 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 |
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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.