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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Columbia, SC

June 17, 2016Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina; Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 3:01 PM EDT for Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina; Columbia County, Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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 17, 2016, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 17, 3:19 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ene Modoc, SC	TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN 3047 HWY 23 WEST .

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 17, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 1265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

938 
WUUS52 KCAE 171901
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-SCC037-065-171930-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0057.160617T1901Z-160617T1930Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
301 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHWESTERN EDGEFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
  SOUTHEASTERN MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 301 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES EAST OF
  LINCOLNTON...OR 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF EVANS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  50 MPH.

  HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT CONSIDERABLE 
           TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO MOBILE HOMES...
           ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EVANS...MARTINEZ...PARKSVILLE...PLUM BRANCH...MODOC...
  CLARKS HILL AND MURPHYS ESTATES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3390 8233 3365 8190 3354 8203 3355 8203
      3347 8213 3376 8247
TIME...MOT...LOC 1901Z 310DEG 42KT 3378 8233 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

FWA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield	51 min
Jun 17, 1:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry	39 min
Jun 17, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Newberry, Richland, Sumter	57 min
Jun 17, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee, Sumter	50 min
Jun 17, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	44 min
Jun 17, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Richland, Sumter	47 min
Jun 17, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw, Richland, Sumter	38 min
Jun 17, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Lee, Sumter	60 min
Jun 17, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield	53 min
Jun 17, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Lexington and 2 more	62 min
Jun 17, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Sumter	30 min
Jun 17, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	31 min
Jun 17, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell	43 min
Jun 17, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg	52 min
Jun 17, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick	34 min
Jun 17, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond	35 min
Jun 17, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	18 min
Jun 17, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	50 min
Jun 17, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richmond	39 min
Jun 17, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lincoln	29 min

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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.