10 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 5, 1:03 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 103 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)... COLD FRONT CURRENTLY IN THE MOUNTAINS NORTH CAROLINA/SOUTH CAROLINA. RADAR SHOWING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE PIEDMONT SOUTH CAROLINA AND EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA MOVING SOUTHEAST. VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AT 500MB WITH TEMPS AROUND -27C WILL SHIFT EAST THIS AFTERNOON...STEEPENING LAPSE RATES. TEMPS IN THE CAE AREA AROUND 70. LAPS SOUNDING AT 17Z FOR CAE GIVES 427 J/KG CAPE...LI AROUND -2 AND TOTALS TOTALS INDEX 53. STRONG SHORT WAVE SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IN WEST KENTUCKY MOVING SOUTHEAST...MODELS SUGGEST GOOD OMEGA ESPECIALLY LATE AFTERNOON AND EAST OF CAE. 0-6 KM SHEAR STRONG 40 M/S THIS AFTERNOON. APPEARS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS MAIN THREAT...ANY SHOWER CAPABLE OF WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH COLD FRONT EAST OF AREA BY 00Z AND MAINLY CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT. EXPECT MIXING EARLY WITH GUSTY WINDS THROUGH AROUND 900 PM...THEN DIMINISHING. COLD ADVECTION OVERNIGHT...CURRENT FORECAST MINIMUM TEMPS LOOK GOOD IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. MOSTLY SUNNY SUNDAY WITH WEAK WARM AIR ADVECTION BY AFTERNOON. MONDAY SHOULD BE WARM WITH INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW...BUT MOISTURE ALSO INCREASING BY AFTERNOON DUE TO INFLUX OF SOME GULF MOISTURE. NAM 850MB FLOW STRONGER THAN YESTERDAY WITH MOISTURE TRANSPORT...MORE LIKE GFS. GUIDANCE SUGGEST ISOLATED SHOWERS LATE AFTERNOON CSRA MONDAY DUE TO ISENTROPIC LIFT...THEN GOOD CHANCE REST OF FORECAST AREA AS SHORT WAVE MOVES THRU AND ISENTROPIC LIFT INCREASES. WILL KEEP 50 POP MONDAY NIGHT...THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)... COLD FRONT MOVING EAST OF AREA TUESDAY MORNING...ENSEMBLES AND ECMWF A LITTLE SLOWER MOVING FRONT EAST OF AREA THAN GFS...SO WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGH MORNING...THEN DECREASING CLOUDS. GFS TRENDING TOWARD EAST COAST LONG WAVE TROUGH BY END OF PERIOD...WITH SEVERAL CLIPPER SYSTEMS MOVING THRU AREA. ENSEMBLES SUPPORT LOW CHANCE POPS ESPECIALLY THU/FRI PERIOD AND TEMPS BELOW CLIMATOLOGY. && .AVIATION... BAND OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 KNOTS. VFR CONDITIONS TONIGHT. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 900 PM ALL CWA. GA...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 900 PM ALL CWA. && AWP
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1208 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2005 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-061029- AIKEN SC-BAMBERG SC-BARNWELL SC-BURKE GA-CALHOUN SC-CHESTERFIELD SC- CLARENDON SC-COLUMBIA GA-EDGEFIELD SC-FAIRFIELD SC-KERSHAW SC- LANCASTER SC-LEE SC-LEXINGTON SC-LINCOLN GA-MCCORMICK SC-MCDUFFIE GA- NEWBERRY SC-ORANGEBURG SC-RICHLAND SC-RICHMOND GA-SALUDA SC- SUMTER SC- 1208 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... .WINDS...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING. REFER TO LAKE WIND ADVISORY PRODUCT IDENTIFIER (CAENPWCAE) ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE AT 1156 AM. .THUNDERSTORMS...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PEA SIZED TO DIME SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. RCC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1215 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2005 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-052100- AIKEN SC-BAMBERG SC-BARNWELL SC-BURKE GA-CALHOUN SC-CHESTERFIELD SC- CLARENDON SC-COLUMBIA GA-EDGEFIELD SC-FAIRFIELD SC-KERSHAW SC- LANCASTER SC-LEE SC-LEXINGTON SC-LINCOLN GA-MCCORMICK SC-MCDUFFIE GA- NEWBERRY SC-ORANGEBURG SC-RICHLAND SC-RICHMOND GA-SALUDA SC- SUMTER SC- 1215 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2005 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL HAVE LIMITED MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. HOWEVER...THERE MAY BE ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THE TIME PERIOD FOR THIS ACTIVITY IS THROUGH 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON. BECAUSE OF A LOW FREEZING LEVEL NEAR 6500 FEET...THE MAJOR THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE PEA SIZED TO DIME SIZED HAIL IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DOES INDEED DEVELOP. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH IF THEY BECOME STRONG ENOUGH. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THROUGH 5 PM. RCC
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 13 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:09 UTC.
10 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff reported several trees down in the Lexington area.
Sheriff reported several trees down.
Sheriff reported several trees down.
City police reported several trees down around the city.
Sheriff reported a few trees down in St. Matthews.
Sheriff reported many trees down across the county.
Sheriff reported trees down across the southeast part of the county.
Sheriff reported many trees down in the southwest part of the county.
City police reported several trees down.
Sheriff reported many trees down around the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, March 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5439198, 5439205, 5439200, 5439199, 5439206, 5439207, 5439201, 5439203, 5439202, 5439204.