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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Columbia, SC

June 10, 2012Newberry County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2012, 9:30 PM EDT for Newberry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 10, 2012, 9:30 PM EDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2012, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Newberry County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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
Jun 10, 9:45 PM EDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	Newberry, SC	FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED IN THE AREA OF AIRPORT AND LEWIS ROADS.
Jun 10, 9:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Newberry, SC	TREE DOWN ON GLENN ST.

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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 1469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

830 
WUUS52 KCAE 110130
SVRCAE
SCC071-110215-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0099.120611T0130Z-120611T0215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
930 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NEWBERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 929 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LIKELY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST
  OF NEWBERRY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE                       
  WHITMIRE...PROSPERITY AND NEWBERRY.

EXPECT DAMAGING WIND WITH THIS STORM.

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 3445 8154 3449 8149 3450 8143 3449 8142
      3446 8141 3445 8142 3441 8140 3422 8134
      3417 8169 3433 8182 3453 8164
TIME...MOT...LOC 0129Z 246DEG 22KT 3430 8163

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 9:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Newberry	26 min
Jun 10, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	78 min
Jun 11, 11:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	108 min
Jun 11, 12:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington, Richland	65 min
Jun 11, 12:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Richland	50 min
Jun 11, 12:39 PM EDT	Flood Watch	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more	39 hr
Jun 11, 12:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield and 7 more	111 min
Jun 11, 1:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	36 min
Jun 11, 1:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	2 hr
Jun 11, 2:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Bamberg, Clarendon, Lee, Orangeburg, Sumter	112 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.