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Heat Advisory 13, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this heat advisory at Jul 27, 2010, 4:00 AM EDT for 11 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jul 27, 2010, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2010, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 27, 2010, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2010, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
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, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 2438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 27, 3:55 AM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:55 AM EDT, 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 26, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Lancaster | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg and 1 more | 68 min |
| Jul 27, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Clarendon, Orangeburg | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, McDuffie | 59 min |
Nearby
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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.