Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Mar 7, 1996, 3:02 PM EST for Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1996, 3:02 PM EST (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1996, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 072003 FFWCAE SCC037-065-080200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 302 PM EST THU MAR 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...WESTERN EDGEFIELD COUNTY...SOUTHERN MCCORMICK COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMIBA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MCCORMICK AND WESTERN EDGEFIELD COUNTIES. HEAVY RAIN OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS HAVE CAUSED CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RISE NEAR AND ABOVE BANKFULL. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURED OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS. AT 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON THE GAGE ON STEVENS CREEKS AT MODOC WAS 19.97 FEET. FLOOD STAGE IS 18.0 FEET. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW $SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. VAUGHAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 8:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Aiken, Lexington | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 28 min |
| Mar 7, 12:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 28 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.