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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2010, 8:05 PM EDT for Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 8, 2010, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2010, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 8, 7:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 7:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 533 PM EDT THU APR 8 2010 GAZ040-SCZ018-082230- LINCOLN-MCCORMICK- 533 PM EDT THU APR 8 2010 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL AFFECT LINCOLN AND MCCORMICK COUNTIES... SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO MUCH OF THE COUNTIES OF LINCOLN AND MCCORMICK THROUGH 800 PM. THIS INCLUDES LAKE THURMOND. WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH WILL LIKELY OCCUR. STRONGER WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Saluda | 44 min |
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.