Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2011, 3:39 PM EST for Aiken County, Barnwell County, South Carolina; Burke County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2011, 3:39 PM EST (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burke County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Barnwell County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
505
WUUS52 KCAE 092039
SVRCAE
GAC033-245-SCC003-011-092145-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0010.110309T2039Z-110309T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
339 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHWESTERN BARNWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 445 PM EST
* AT 333 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MIDVILLE...OR 20 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO...AND MOVING EAST AT 40
MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE...
WAYNESBORO...SARDIS...MIDVILLE...HEPHZIBAH...NEW ELLENTON...
JACKSON...AIKEN AND GLOVERVILLE
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 3282 8231 3285 8232 3291 8228 3308 8230
3322 8223 3326 8225 3360 8174 3314 8156
3308 8161 3306 8156 3304 8155 3291 8177
3295 8186 3292 8196 3291 8208 3288 8212
3282 8214 3281 8223
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 253DEG 35KT 3307 8230
$$
TTHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 4:09 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more | 43 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:12 AM EST | River Flood Watch | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 11 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 4:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Lexington, Saluda | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011
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.