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Dense Fog Advisory 21, NWS Columbia, SC

December 13, 200910 counties in South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this dense fog advisory at Dec 13, 2009, 8:52 AM EST for 10 counties in South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 13, 2009, 8:52 AM EST (13:52 UTC)
Expired
Dec 13, 2009, 1:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:52 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 275 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2009-12-13Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2009-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 561 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
561 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
548 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.