Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2013, 2:53 PM EDT for 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2013, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2013, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Lee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 1:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Lexington | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Fairfield | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Orangeburg | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 12:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Richmond | 53 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.