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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC

May 3, 2010Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2010, 10:22 AM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 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: May 3, 2010, 10:22 AM EDT (14:22 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2010, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Fairfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 3, 10:27 AM EDT	TORNADO	9 Se Carlisle, SC	AN EF1 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN NORTHWEST FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEAR SC215 AND SHELTON ROAD AND CONTINUED EAST AND PEAKED NEAR CLOWNEY ROAD TAKING DOWN MANY TREES AND DOING MINOR DAMAGE TO A HOME AND OUTBUILDINGS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

053 
WFUS52 KCAE 031422
TORCAE
SCC039-031445-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0007.100503T1422Z-100503T1445Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1022 AM EDT MON MAY 3 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EDT

* AT 1020 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER FAIRFIELD
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

&&

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.

LAT...LON 3456 8136 3454 8095 3439 8096 3441 8140
      3443 8141 3447 8141 3449 8143 3456 8143
      3457 8141
TIME...MOT...LOC 1422Z 234DEG 49KT 3454 8135

$$

LM

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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.