Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2016, 5:33 PM EDT for Bamberg County, Barnwell County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 5, 2016, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:43 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Nne Snelling, SC | BARNWELL DISPATCH REPORTED TREES DOWN ON PIONEER RD. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. |
| Jul 5, 6:16 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Se Cope, SC | ORANGEBURG DISPATCH REPORTED TREES DOWN ON EMBER RD. |
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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 576 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
612
WUUS52 KCAE 052133
SVRCAE
SCC009-011-075-052230-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0076.160705T2133Z-160705T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
533 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
EASTERN BARNWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 531 PM EDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
WESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHWEST
BARNWELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MPH.
SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE LINE LIKELY CONTAINED
WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ORANGEBURG...BARNWELL...BAMBERG...DENMARK...WILLISTON...BLACKVILLE...
EHRHARDT...SPRINGFIELD...HILDA...NEESES...NORWAY...SNELLING...OLAR...
KLINE...ELKO...CORDOVA...LIVINGSTON...COPE...GOVAN AND WILKINSON
HEIGHTS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3312 8119 3311 8136 3313 8144 3341 8148
3356 8120 3354 8095 3348 8080 3308 8098
3303 8108
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 293DEG 21KT 3353 8118 3314 8157
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | McCormick | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield, Newberry, Saluda | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Lexington | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and 4 more | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Richland and 1 more | 75 min |
| Jul 5, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg | 55 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.