Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2016, 1:08 PM EST for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 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, 1:08 PM EST (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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, 1:15 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 8 N Lancaster, SC | RANGER AT ANDREW JACKSON STATE PARK REPORTED NUMEROUS LARGE TO SMALL LIMBS DOWN IN THE PARK. |
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
129
WUUS52 KCAE 241808
SVRCAE
SCC057-241845-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0008.160224T1808Z-160224T1845Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
108 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LANCASTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 145 PM EST
* AT 107 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 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LANCASTER TO NEAR GREAT FALLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LANCASTER...WAXHAW...ELGIN...HEATH SPRINGS...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 8080 3482 8057 3469 8047
3446 8088 3449 8090 3450 8088 3452 8087
3460 8089 3467 8089 3469 8086 3479 8088
3492 8086 3498 8087 3499 8083
TIME...MOT...LOC 1807Z 216DEG 54KT 3482 8085 3458 8096
$$The 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, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 43 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.