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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Columbia, SC

July 5, 2012Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2012, 8:46 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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 5, 2012, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2012, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Burke County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2012-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3378 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2012-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

048 
WUUS52 KCAE 060046
SVRCAE
GAC033-060130-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0165.120706T0046Z-120706T0130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
846 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 841 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF
  WAYNESBORO...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WAYNESBORO AND SARDIS.

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 3281 8223 3325 8214 3324 8211 3323 8210
      3324 8208 3322 8190 3301 8159 3291 8176
      3295 8184 3294 8188 3292 8196 3291 8208
      3288 8212 3281 8215 3280 8222
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 346DEG 10KT 3308 8190

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 8:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBurke56 min
Jul 5, 9:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichmond51 min
Jul 5, 9:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke, Richmond32 min
Jul 5, 11:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEColumbia28 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.