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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2013, 2:51 PM EDT for Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia; McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 19, 2013, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2013, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
428
WUUS52 KCAE 191851
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-189-SCC065-191915-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0021.130419T1851Z-130419T1915Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
251 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 315 PM EDT
* AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCORMICK TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LINCOLNTON AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH.
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE THOMSON...LINCOLNTON
AND MCCORMICK
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF ON OR NEAR LAKE THURMOND...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS
OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO 15 MILES
FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW.
DON'T BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM!
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR USE
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV TO RELAY
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN
EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
&&
LAT...LON 3366 8250 3382 8260 3387 8258 3387 8262
3397 8263 3397 8259 3407 8245 3407 8233
3398 8230 3402 8225 3398 8219 3399 8205
3398 8204 3396 8205 3392 8216 3382 8212
3377 8217 3363 8217 3341 8256 3362 8264
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 239DEG 64KT 3419 8229 3374 8240
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:20 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 17 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Richmond | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 14 min |
| Apr 19, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 4:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Orangeburg and 2 more | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Orangeburg, Sumter | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.