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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Columbia, SC

July 28, 200512 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this heat advisory at Jul 28, 2005, 4:07 AM EDT for 12 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jul 28, 2005, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2005, 4:07 AM EDT (08:07 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 28, 2005, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 28, 2005, 5:14 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 524 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, 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 this heat advisory went out at Jul 28, 3:15 AM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:15 AM EDT, 52 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	50 min
Jul 28, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	65 min
Jul 28, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	34 min
Jul 28, 3:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	88 min
Jul 28, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	39 min
Jul 28, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	60 min
Jul 28, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	32 min
Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	36 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in South Carolina, 2005 Heat Advisories in Georgia, 2005 Every heat advisory in 2005

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.