Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2010, 12:15 AM EDT for Fairfield County, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 29, 2010, 12:15 AM EDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2010, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fairfield County, SC, Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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 28, 10:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
578
WUUS52 KCAE 290415
SVRCAE
SCC039-057-290500-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0013.100329T0415Z-100329T0500Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1215 AM EDT MON MAR 29 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
* UNTIL 100 AM EDT
* AT 1214 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINNSBORO...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE HEATH SPRINGS
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOLL FREE 1 877 6 3
3...6 7 7 2.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
&&
LAT...LON 3455 8059 3450 8068 3451 8070 3449 8071
3448 8075 3454 8075 3446 8087 3442 8084
3428 8111 3434 8127 3455 8105 3454 8088
3466 8090 3472 8087
TIME...MOT...LOC 0415Z 227DEG 34KT 3436 8109
$$
LMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 10:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 11:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington, Saluda | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 11:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Richland | 42 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.