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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2012, 6:17 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 14, 2012, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417
WUUS52 KCAE 142217
SVRCAE
GAC033-073-189-245-142300-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0231.120814T2217Z-120814T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
617 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
BURKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 616 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 24
MILES WEST OF MIDVILLE...OR 37 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO...AND
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WAYNESBORO...SARDIS...
MIDVILLE...HEPHZIBAH...HARLEM...GROVETOWN...FORT GORDON AND AUGUSTA
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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 8230 3293 8228 3308 8230 3324 8225
3331 8234 3335 8255 3337 8255 3351 8204
3340 8193 3335 8194 3331 8185 3329 8186
3326 8183 3325 8185 3321 8178 3301 8160
3293 8180 3294 8188 3291 8208 3281 8216
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 270DEG 23KT 3293 8258
$$
LMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond | 73 min |
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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.