Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2012, 9:24 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 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
- Mar 24, 2012, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2012, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 9:26 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 6 N Branchville, SC | PUBLIC REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL JUST NORTH OF BRANCHVILLE ON MIDDLE ROAD. HAIL FELL FOR APPROXIMATELY 20 MINUTES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
460
WUUS52 KCAE 250124
SVRCAE
SCC075-250230-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0043.120325T0124Z-120325T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
924 PM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
* AT 920 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
BRANCHVILLE...OR 9 MILES EAST OF BAMBERG...AND MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BRANCHVILLE AND BOWMAN
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 200 AM EDT SUNDAY
MORNING FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
&&
LAT...LON 3333 8091 3347 8064 3346 8062 3349 8061
3355 8049 3353 8046 3353 8045 3352 8047
3348 8044 3344 8037 3336 8030 3330 8050
3333 8051 3326 8064 3320 8082
TIME...MOT...LOC 0124Z 256DEG 25KT 3330 8084
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 8:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 39 min |
| Mar 24, 9:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 53 min |
| Mar 24, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell | 51 min |
| Mar 25, 1:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Marlboro | 23 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.