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Lake Wind Advisory 34, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Nov 15, 2008, 4:15 AM EST for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Nov 15, 2008, 9:00 AM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2008, 4:15 AM EST (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 15, 2008, 9:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2008, 7:00 AM 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 09:18 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 00:00Z, 9.3 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
- 724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 Nov 15, 4:07 AM EST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 4:07 AM EST, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 14, 11:19 PM EST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1119 PM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-018-020-021-025>027-030-160430- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-MCCORMICK- NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-AIKEN- 1119 PM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCZ016-022-028-029-031-035>038-041-160430- CHESTERFIELD-KERSHAW-RICHLAND-LEE-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN- CLARENDON-BAMBERG- 1119 PM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 ...TORNADO WATCH 932 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SATURDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. TORNADO WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 15, 1:09 AM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Sumter | 33 min |
| Nov 14, 11:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 20 min |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2008Lake Wind Advisories in Georgia, 2008Every lake wind advisory in 2008
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.