Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2017, 3:14 PM EDT for 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 61 min. 8 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
- May 24, 2017, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2017, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fairfield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:14 PM EDT | TORNADO | 1 Se Prosperity, SC | 4 HOUSES DAMAGED VICINITY CY SCHUMPERT AND MACEDONIA CHURCH RD. |
| May 24, 3:14 PM EDT | TORNADO | 2 S Prosperity, SC | NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED MULTIPLE OAK AND CEDAR TREES SNAPPED OFF. SEVERAL OTHER TREES DOWN. WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF RESIDENCE. SHINGLES AND GUTTERS PEELED BACK ON SEVERAL RESIDENCES ON STONEY HILL ROAD. |
| May 24, 3:14 PM EDT | TORNADO | 2 S Prosperity, SC | ROOF PEELED OFF BARN ON STONEY HILL ROAD. |
| May 24, 3:15 PM EDT | TORNADO | 2 S Prosperity, SC | PUBLIC REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES SNAPPED AND UPROOTED ON STONEY HILL ROAD. |
| May 24, 3:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Chapin, SC | TREES IN ROADWAY 330 LONG PINE ROAD. |
| May 24, 3:38 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pomaria, SC | MULTIPLE TREES/POWER LINES DOWN AND SEVERAL HOUSES DAMAGED IN VICINITY OF POMARIA/GARMANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. |
| May 24, 3:57 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Chapin, SC | TREES DOWN AT LONG PINE ROAD AND STRAWFIELD ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| May 24, 4:04 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Irmo, SC | TREE IN ROADWAY AT KOON ROAD AND WES BICKLEY ROAD. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:04 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
| May 24, 11:03 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
992 WUUS52 KCAE 241914 SVRCAE SCC039-063-071-079-081-242015- /O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0072.170524T1914Z-170524T2015Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Columbia SC 314 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2017 The National Weather Service in Columbia has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Fairfield County in central South Carolina... Southeastern Newberry County in central South Carolina... Northwestern Lexington County in central South Carolina... Eastern Saluda County in central South Carolina... Northwestern Richland County in central South Carolina... * Until 415 PM EDT * At 314 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles east of Saluda, or 9 miles northwest of Batesburg, moving northeast at 35 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Irmo, Batesburg-Leesville, Saluda, Prosperity, Chapin, Little Mountain, Pomaria, Ward, Peak, Lake Murray Of Richland and Seven Oaks. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && A tornado watch remains in effect until 600 PM EDT for central South Carolina. A tornado watch also remains in effect until 600 PM EDT for central South Carolina. LAT...LON 3384 8175 3410 8180 3445 8135 3411 8099 TIME...MOT...LOC 1914Z 237DEG 31KT 3403 8161 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ CJR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg | 47 min |
| May 24, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 39 min |
| May 24, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 48 min |
| May 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Lexington, Newberry, Saluda | 45 min |
| May 24, 2:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 27 min |
| May 24, 2:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 2 hr |
| May 24, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 30 min |
| May 24, 3:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry | 32 min |
| May 24, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 42 min |
| May 24, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 36 min |
| May 24, 4:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 2 hr |
| May 24, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken | 27 min |
| May 24, 5:40 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 48 hr |
| May 24, 6:46 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 3 days |
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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.