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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2010, 6:06 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 13, 2010, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2010, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fairfield County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 1732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 7:40 PM EDT, 22 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 7:40 PM EDT, 22 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:01 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield and 7 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 4:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | McCormick | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee, Sumter | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 6:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Richland | 117 min |
| Aug 13, 3:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.