Alert archive / South Carolina / Freeze Warnings in 2007
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this freeze warning at Mar 18, 2007, 3:06 PM EDT for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 19, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 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 18, 2007, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2007, 9:00 AM 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 19:07 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, 7.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KCAE 181906 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 306 PM EDT SUN MAR 18 2007 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041- 190900- /O.NEW.KCAE.FZ.W.0002.070319T0800Z-070319T1300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLNTON...THOMSON...MARTINEZ... EVANS...AUGUSTA...HEPHZIBAH...WAYNESBORO...LANCASTER...ELGIN... CHERAW...PAGELAND...MCCORMICK...NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN... LUGOFF...EDGEFIELD...JOHNSTON...SALUDA...RIDGE SPRING... WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE...LEXINGTON...RED BANK...COLUMBIA... BISHOPVILLE...AIKEN...NORTH AUGUSTA...SUMTER...BARNWELL... WILLISTON...BLACKVILLE...ORANGEBURG...ST. MATTHEWS...MANNING... SUMMERTON...BAMBERG...DENMARK 306 PM EDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FOR EARLY MONDAY MORNING. CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE ACROSS THE CAROLINAS OVERNIGHT. CLEAR SKIES AND NEARLY CALM WINDS...COUPLED WITH A DRY AIRMASS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO COOL TO BELOW FREEZING EARLY MONDAY MORNING. LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S ARE EXPECTED BY SUNRISE MONDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES SHOULD RISE ABOVE FREEZING BY 9 AM MONDAY MORNING. A FREEZE WARNING IS ISSUED DURING THE GROWING SEASON WHEN FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST. YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT PLANTS SENSITIVE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES. A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS COULD HARM SENSITIVE VEGETATION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS72 KCAE 190820 NPWCAE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 420 AM EDT MON MAR 19 2007 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041- 191300- /O.CON.KCAE.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070319T1300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLNTON...THOMSON...MARTINEZ... EVANS...AUGUSTA...HEPHZIBAH...WAYNESBORO...LANCASTER...ELGIN... CHERAW...PAGELAND...MCCORMICK...NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...CAMDEN... LUGOFF...EDGEFIELD...JOHNSTON...SALUDA...RIDGE SPRING... WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE...LEXINGTON...RED BANK...COLUMBIA... BISHOPVILLE...AIKEN...NORTH AUGUSTA...SUMTER...BARNWELL... WILLISTON...BLACKVILLE...ORANGEBURG...ST. MATTHEWS...MANNING... SUMMERTON...BAMBERG...DENMARK 420 AM EDT MON MAR 19 2007 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING. CLEAR SKIES AND NEARLY CALM WINDS...COUPLED WITH A DRY AIRMASS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO COOL TO BELOW FREEZING EARLY THIS MORNING IN MOST LOCATIONS. LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S ARE EXPECTED BY SUNRISE. TEMPERATURES SHOULD RISE ABOVE FREEZING BY 9 AM. A FREEZE WARNING IS ISSUED DURING THE GROWING SEASON WHEN FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST. YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT PLANTS SENSITIVE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES. A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS COULD HARM SENSITIVE VEGETATION. $$
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in South Carolina, 2007Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2007Every freeze warning in 2007
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.