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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Columbia, SC

June 27, 2005Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 4:55 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2005, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fairfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 2714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 1:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
149 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT)...
LRG HI PRES OFFSHORE AND UPR LO OVR LWR MS VLY CONTS TO FEED RICH
LO LVL MSTR INTO AREA. PW NEAR 1.75 ATTM AND WL INCRS DURING FCST
PD. SHWRS/FEW TSTMS OVR CNTRL MDLNDS WTH AREA COVERAGE EXPANDING
DURING AFTN.

&&

.LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY)...
UPR LO OVR MS VLY OPENS UP AND REMAINS ALG E COAST FOR THE NEXT
SEVRL DAYS. THIS WL CAUSE FAVORABLE LIFT FOR MORE SHOWERS AND TSTMS.
TROP WV IN GULF WL CONT TO SPRD MSTR INTO AREA. GFS BRINGS SYS
INLAND MID WK AND INTO SC. WL KP LKLY POPS FOR TUE AND WED. NXT
CDFNT MOVS INTO SC THU NIGHT AND BCMS STNRY. THEREFORE LO LVL MSTR
CONTS OVR AREA AND WL KP CHC POPS THROUGH FCST PD.

&&

.AVIATION...
WITH MOIST EAST/SOUTHEAST FLOW ACROSS THE AREA. SEA BREEZE
CONVERGENCE LINE WORKING N/NWWD ALONG WITH WEAK SHORTWAVE SHOULD BE
ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY UP UPPER SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL SHOWERS
OVERNIGHT...BUT WITH ABUNDANCE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CANNOT RULE OUT
AN ISOLATE SHRA. BUFKIT SHOWS LOTS OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NEAR THE
SURFACE INDICATIVE OF STRONG POTENTIAL FOR SOME FOG AND LOW CLOUDS
AFTER 06Z. EXPECT VFR WITH PERIODS OF IFR CONDITIONS WITH SHRA/TSRA
THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH ADDITIONAL IFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED DURING
THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.
&&

.CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SC...NONE.
GA...NONE.
&&

07/14/07

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:30 AM EDT, 11 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
530 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-281000-
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-
530 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
333 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0325 PM     TSTM WND DMG     OLAR                    33.18N 81.19W
06/27/2005                   BAMBERG            SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            BAMBERG COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED TREES DOWN IN THE OLAR
            AREA.

&&

KILMER

Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
346 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 PM     HAIL             DENMARK                 33.32N 81.14W
06/27/2005  0.50 INCH        BAMBERG            SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            1/2 INCH HAIL REPORTED VICINITY OF DENMARK BY BAMBERG
            COUNTY SHERIFF.

&&

KILMER

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:42 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
442 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0405 PM     HAIL             4 SE CLEARWATER         33.46N 81.86W
06/27/2005  1.00 INCH        AIKEN              SC   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC NEAR STORM BRANCH
            AND PINE LOG ROAD.

&&

KILMER

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:44 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
444 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0420 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 NE CLEARWATER         33.54N 81.87W
06/27/2005                   AIKEN              SC   AMATEUR RADIO

            15 IN DIAMETER TREE DOWN. TOP AND MIDDLE GONE AT HIGHWAY
            421 AND LANGLEY DAM ROAD REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

&&

KILMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	49 min
Jun 27, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	24 min
Jun 27, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Lexington	38 min
Jun 27, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	31 min
Jun 27, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	26 min
Jun 27, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.