Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2012, 3:16 PM EDT for Kershaw County, Richland County, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 1, 2012, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kershaw County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 5275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
950
WUUS52 KCAE 011916
SVRCAE
SCC055-079-085-012015-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0113.120701T1916Z-120701T2015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
316 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN KERSHAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
NORTHEASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
NORTHWESTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
LUGOFF...OR NEAR CAMDEN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE LUGOFF...CAMDEN AND
OAKLAND
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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
SUNDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
&&
LAT...LON 3405 8031 3393 8063 3425 8087 3429 8063
3417 8047 3411 8048 3408 8041 3409 8040
3408 8038 3408 8035
TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 314DEG 7KT 3418 8065
$$
SJNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw | 54 min |
| Jul 1, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Lexington, McCormick, Saluda | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Richland | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Sumter | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 49 min |
| Jul 1, 4:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda, Sumter | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Richland | 87 min |
| Jul 1, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Richland, Sumter | 49 min |
| Jul 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington, Richland, Sumter | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Clarendon, Orangeburg | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 72 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.