Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2016, 12:17 PM EST for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Feb 24, 2016, 12:17 PM EST (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 12:37 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 23 Nnw Lancaster, SC | DOT REPORTED TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF LANCASTER CO. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:16 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 703 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 750 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
925
WUUS52 KCAE 241717
SVRCAE
SCC057-241800-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0007.160224T1717Z-160224T1800Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1217 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 100 PM EST
* AT 1216 PM EST...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 NEWPORT
TO NEAR CHESTER STATE PARK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LANCASTER...WAXHAW...IRWIN...FISHING CREEK RESERVOIR AND LANCASTER
MILL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS
NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...IF ONE IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...ALSO USE WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSCOLUMBIA AND EMAIL
CAEWX@NOAA.GOV TO RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST FOR CENTRAL SOUTH
CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3493 8078 3482 8079 3482 8056 3459 8088
3459 8089 3467 8089 3470 8086 3474 8088
3479 8087 3483 8090 3484 8087 3490 8088
3493 8086 3501 8091 3507 8090
TIME...MOT...LOC 1716Z 228DEG 65KT 3500 8107 3465 8125
$$
MANNINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 5:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 5:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 6:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Barnwell | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 7:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 7:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 23 min |
| Feb 24, 7:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 9:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | McCormick | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 10:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Saluda | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 10:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 11:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Saluda | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 1:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 2:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 3:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 3:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 19 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.