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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2008, 11:52 AM EDT for Kershaw County, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2008, 11:52 AM EDT (15:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Aug 26, 10:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 10:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 26, 9:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Chesterfield | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 12:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 1:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Aug 26, 2:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lancaster | 115 min |
| Aug 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 119 min |
| Aug 26, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 6:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 108 min |
| Aug 26, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry, Saluda | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Lexington, Orangeburg | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 2 hr |
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.