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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Columbia, SC

June 6, 2014Bamberg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2014, 8:38 PM EDT for Bamberg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 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 6, 2014, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2014, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bamberg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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 6, 8:46 PM EDT	TORNADO	9 Sse Bamberg, SC	AN EF0 SNAPPED OFF TREES TREES ABOUT 50YDS INTO THE WOODS OFF OF TURKEY CUT ROAD SOUTHEAST OF BAMBERG. OTHER SCATTERED TREES AND LARGE BRANCHES WERE DOWN ON THE EAST SIDE OF HWY 362 ON RURAL ROADS.
Jun 6, 8:47 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	7 Ene Ehrhardt, SC	RESIDENTS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL DURING A STORM SURVEY INTERVIEW

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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 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.

342 
WFUS52 KCAE 070038
TORCAE
SCC009-070115-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0002.140607T0038Z-140607T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
838 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH
  OF EHRHARDT...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

THE STORM IS BETWEEN HIGH 362 AND 601 NEAR THE LITTLE SALKEHATCHIE 
RIVER.

REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR USE

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV OR EMAIL US
AT CAEWX@NOAA.GOV

TO RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS.

LAT...LON 3327 8109 3331 8096 3325 8088 3324 8084
      3321 8084 3320 8082 3317 8081 3312 8089
      3309 8088 3306 8090 3310 8094 3305 8103
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 342DEG 15KT 3322 8096

$$

1 follow-up statement

796 
WWUS52 KCAE 070049
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
849 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014

SCC009-070115-
/O.CON.KCAE.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140607T0115Z/
BAMBERG SC-
849 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR BAMBERG
COUNTY...

AT 845 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LIKELY TORNADO.  THIS STORM WAS IN THE STATE ROAD
362 AREA ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF PADGETT.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEASTWARD NEAR 20 MPH. 

A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR USUALLY OFFERS THE
BEST PROTECTION FROM TORNADOES.

REPORT DAMAGING WIND OR HAIL YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF...OR USE

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV OR EMAIL US
AT CAEWX@NOAA.GOV

TO RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS.

LAT...LON 3316 8106 3319 8103 3323 8091 3323 8088
      3321 8085 3321 8083 3320 8083 3316 8083
      3312 8089 3309 8088 3306 8090 3310 8094
      3305 8103
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 342DEG 15KT 3318 8095

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg	39 min
Jun 6, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Orangeburg	41 min
Jun 6, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	36 min
Jun 6, 10:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	24 min
Jun 7, 9:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Kershaw, Lancaster	80 min
Jun 7, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	56 min
Jun 7, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	51 min
Jun 7, 4:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington	117 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.