Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2012, 11:14 PM EDT for Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 3, 2012, 11:14 PM EDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2012, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 11:59 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Augusta, GA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 2484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
791
WUUS52 KCAE 040314
SVRCAE
GAC073-245-040415-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0053.120404T0314Z-120404T0415Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1114 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1215 AM EDT
* AT 1113 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
HARLEM...OR 6 MILES WEST OF GROVETOWN...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE MARTINEZ...HARLEM...
GROVETOWN...FORT GORDON...EVANS AND AUGUSTA
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 3362 8218 3359 8214 3360 8210 3358 8209
3357 8205 3341 8192 3332 8230 3334 8231
3336 8230 3340 8234 3342 8234 3347 8238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0314Z 250DEG 14KT 3343 8229
$$1 follow-up statement
230
WWUS52 KCAE 040340
SVSCAE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1140 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012
GAC073-245-040415-
/O.CON.KCAE.SV.W.0053.000000T0000Z-120404T0415Z/
RICHMOND GA-COLUMBIA GA-
1140 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM EDT
FOR COLUMBIA AND RICHMOND COUNTIES...
AT 1137 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR GROVETOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FORT
GORDON...EVANS...MARTINEZ AND AUGUSTA
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1...8 7
7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 3355 8228 3362 8218 3359 8214 3360 8211
3358 8209 3357 8205 3341 8192 3335 8218
3343 8220 3346 8224
TIME...MOT...LOC 0341Z 254DEG 10KT 3346 8218
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Columbia | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Columbia | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Richmond | 40 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.