Alert archive / South Carolina / Heat Advisories in 2006
Heat Advisory 2, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this heat advisory at Aug 1, 2006, 2:54 PM EDT for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Aug 2, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2006, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
All 21 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, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:12 PM EDT | Air Stagnation Advisory | CAE | Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry, Richland and 1 more | 25 hr |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.