Alert archive / South Carolina / Lake Wind Advisories in 2006
Lake Wind Advisory 2, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 13, 2006, 3:28 PM EST for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 14, 2006, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2006, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2006, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2006, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 22 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 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jan 13, 2:58 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 2:58 PM EST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 258 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED OVER THE REGION EARLIER TODAY...HAVE PUSHED TO THE NE. THIS WAS IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER IMPULSE AND ISENTROPIC LIFT. COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF STRONGER UPPER ENERGY TO OUR WEST...TO ROLL THROUGH OUR FORECAST AREA (FA) LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE REMAINS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THIS SYSTEM. EXPECTING THE ACTIVITY TO PASS THROUGH THE EASTERN FA BY MIDNIGHT OR SO. THE CLOSED UPPER LOW WILL MOVE EAST AND PASS OVERHEAD THROUGH SATURDAY...WHILE THE SURFACE LOW MOVES NE INTO THE MID ATLANTIC. MODELS INDICATING A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN THE LOW TO OUR NE AND HIGH PRESSURE TO OUR WEST...PROVIDING BREEZY CONDITIONS LATE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. WILL ISSUE A LAKE WIND ADVISORY. .FIRE WEATHER... AFTER COORDINATION WITH FORESTRY OFFICIALS...WILL NOT ISSUE A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR SATURDAY. DESPITE AN INCREASE IN WINDS...IT APPEARS THAT MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES SATURDAY AFTERNOON WILL REMAIN ABOVE 25%...AND FUEL MOISTURES WILL BE HIGH DUE TO RAINFALL TODAY. && .LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... UPPER LOW TO MOVE OFFSHORE SUNDAY. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN BY SUNDAY NIGHT.SURFACE HIGH TO MOVE OFFSHORE MONDAY. UPPER HEIGHT RISES AND SW UPPER FLOW TO DEVELOP OVER OUR REGION AS UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER CENTRAL NOAM. MODELS INDICATE POSSIBILITY OF SOME MID AND UPPER LEVEL CLOUDINESS. A SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW DEVELOPING BY TUESDAY TO PROVIDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. UPPER ENERGY TO SHIFT TO THE NE...WHILE A FRONT MOVES THROUGH OUR REGION IN THE WED/THU TIME FRAME...PROVIDING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HIGH PRESSURE TO FOLLOW...ENDING THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION... MID LEVEL AC/AS CIG WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON WITH SCT CU AROUND 2000-4000 FT. CU DECK WILL BECOME BROKEN BY 20Z AS SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP FROM THE WEST. A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM AL/GA WILL HELP DEVELOP A FEW STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH SURFACE WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LIFR IN STRONG STORMS WITH MVFR TO IFR ELSEWHERE. FRONT PUSHES THROUGH WITH GUSTY NW WINDS BEHIND IT BY 04Z SATURDAY. SCT CU DECK AROUND 5000 FT ON SATURDAY. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...LAKE WIND ADVISORY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT UNTIL 8PM SATURDAY. GA...LAKE WIND ADVISORY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT UNTIL 8PM SATURDAY. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 10:27 AM EST, 5 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1027 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041- 141030- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 1027 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA.. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA THIS EVENING. A LINE OF VERY FAST MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY OCCUR ALONG OR AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF UNSEASONABLE WARM AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT PLUS STRONG WINDS IN THE UPPER-LEVELS AND VERY COLD AIR ALOFT WILL HELP CAUSE A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SATURDAY...STRONG NW WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH ACROSS THE AREA WILL SUBSIDE BY SATURDAY NIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES MAY BE NEEDED ON SATURDAY. OTHERWISE NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. BC
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 13, 5:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 13 min |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2006Lake Wind Advisories in Georgia, 2006Every lake wind advisory in 2006
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.