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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Columbia, SC

June 9, 2014Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2014, 10:17 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 19 min. 3 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 9, 2014, 10:17 PM EDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2014, 10:36 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Orangeburg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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 9, 10:17 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	7 Ese Bowman, SC	ALONG ENNIS LANE THERE WAS A SMALL TREE UPROOTED...THERE WAS DAMAGE TO A SMALL SHED COVERING A WATER PUMP AND A PORTION OF A METAL ROOF COVERING A CATTLE BARN. THERE WAS ALSO SOME CROP DAMAGE TO A CORN FIELD THAT WAS DUE TO A MICROBURST. THERE WERE ADDITIONAL
Jun 9, 10:17 PM EDT	TORNADO	7 Ese Bowman, SC	AN EF0 TORNADO SNAPPED OFF A FEW TREES AND UPROOTED A COUPLE OF TREES ALONG A PATH FROM NEAR DITCH BANK ROAD SOUTHEAST ACROSS OLD SCHOOL HOUSE ROAD THEN ACROSS EBENEZER ROAD TO NEAR FIESTA COURT. THE PATH WAS JUST OVER 1.5 MILES LONG AND APPROXIMATELY75 YARDS
Jun 9, 10:28 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	8 Ese Bowman, SC	SC HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS TREES DOWN ON I-26 NEAR MILE MARKER 169.

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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 2493 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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.

173 
WFUS52 KCAE 100217
TORCAE
SCC075-100245-
/O.NEW.KCAE.TO.W.0003.140610T0217Z-140610T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1017 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 1010 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ORANGEBURG
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF SAINT GEORGE...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH. THE STORM WAS NEAR THE INTERSTATE 26 AND 95 INTERSECTION.

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

&&

LAT...LON 3335 8061 3339 8046 3327 8044 3327 8047
      3328 8049 3333 8051 3327 8061 3327 8063
TIME...MOT...LOC 0217Z 267DEG 16KT 3332 8053

$$

2 follow-up statements

787 
WWUS52 KCAE 100225
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1025 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2014

SCC075-100245-
/O.CON.KCAE.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140610T0245Z/
ORANGEBURG SC-
1025 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR
EASTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY...

AT 1015 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF 
INTERSTATE 26 AND 95. MOVEMENT WAS EASTWARD NEAR 20 MPH. 

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3335 8061 3339 8046 3327 8044 3327 8047
      3328 8049 3333 8051 3327 8061 3327 8063
TIME...MOT...LOC 0224Z 267DEG 16KT 3332 8049

$$

803 
WWUS52 KCAE 100236
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1036 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2014

SCC075-100243-
/O.CAN.KCAE.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140610T0245Z/
ORANGEBURG SC-
1036 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ORANGEBURG COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STRONG CIRCULATION ON RADAR IN EASTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY
HAS DIMINISHED. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. REMAIN ALERT. 

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 3335 8061 3339 8046 3327 8044 3327 8047
      3328 8049 3333 8051 3327 8061 3327 8063
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 267DEG 16KT 3332 8044

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Saluda	28 min
Jun 9, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun	33 min
Jun 9, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Sumter	23 min
Jun 9, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Orangeburg	29 min
Jun 9, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg	23 min
Jun 9, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	51 min
Jun 9, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon	61 min
Jun 9, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	49 min
Jun 9, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Orangeburg	33 min
Jun 9, 11:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	18 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.