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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Columbia, SC

July 12, 201116 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this heat advisory at Jul 12, 2011, 9:34 PM EDT for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jul 13, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 2011, 9:34 PM EDT (01:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 13, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 13, 2011, 5:17 PM EDT
In force: 5 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 01:33 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 00:00Z, 1.6 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 12, 9:20 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 9:20 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 3:51 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw and 4 more	13 hr
Jul 13, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda	56 min
Jul 13, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Saluda	39 min
Jul 13, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry	50 min
Jul 13, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	36 min
Jul 13, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry, Saluda	44 min
Jul 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee	52 min
Jul 13, 6:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Richmond	55 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in South Carolina, 2011 Heat Advisories in Georgia, 2011 Every heat advisory in 2011

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.