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Lake Wind Advisory 5, NWS Columbia, SC

February 9, 200816 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 9, 2008, 3:46 PM EST for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 10, 2008, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 9, 2008, 3:46 PM EST (20:46 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2008, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 10, 2008, 9:00 PM EST
In force
14 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 20:49 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, 8.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2008-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2008-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 9, 4:00 AM ESTFire Weather WatchCAEAiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more11 hr
Feb 9, 2:54 PM ESTRed Flag WarningCAEAiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more30 hr

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.