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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Columbia, SC

August 22, 2007Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2007, 10:27 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
Aug 22, 2007, 10:27 PM EDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2007, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kershaw County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2007-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2007-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 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 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 Aug 22, 9:59 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 9:59 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 22, 1:59 PM EDT, 8 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
159 PM EDT WED AUG 22 2007

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-231800-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
159 PM EDT WED AUG 22 2007

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HEAT ADVISORY.

HEAT INDEX VALUES 105 TO 109 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON.

EXPECT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AN ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORM MAY BECOME SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 5:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 11:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee45 min
Aug 22, 11:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter48 min
Aug 23, 12:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon46 min
Aug 23, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield23 min
Aug 23, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2007Every severe thunderstorm 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.