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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Columbia, SC

May 14, 2012Bamberg County, Barnwell County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2012, 7:03 PM EDT for Bamberg County, Barnwell County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 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: May 14, 2012, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2012, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 7:33 PM EDT	HAIL 1	4 E Bamberg, SC	QUARTER SIZE HAIL EAST OF BAMBERG NEAR THE EDISTO RIVER. SMALL LIMBS DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 518 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

120 
WUUS52 KCAE 142303
SVRCAE
SCC009-011-075-142345-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0073.120514T2303Z-120514T2345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
703 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  SOUTHERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
  SOUTHEASTERN BARNWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 656 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BARNWELL INTO EASTERN ORANGEBURG  
  COUNTY...NORTH OF BRANCHVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST       
  AROUND 20 TO 25 MPH. .

* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE DENMARK...
  BRANCHVILLE...BARNWELL AND BAMBERG

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

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 3329 8144 3341 8085 3332 8077 3327 8062
      3303 8109
TIME...MOT...LOC 2302Z 268DEG 17KT 3333 8088 3326 8115

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Orangeburg	48 min
May 14, 2:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg	35 min
May 14, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon	27 min
May 14, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken	53 min
May 14, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	49 min
May 14, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	44 min
May 14, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	35 min
May 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg	34 min
May 14, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	46 min
May 14, 5:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	26 min
May 14, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Orangeburg	59 min
May 14, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell	46 min
May 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	45 min
May 14, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	47 min
May 14, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	23 min
May 14, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.