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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2011, 6:22 PM EDT for 12 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2011, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2011, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
Counties Aiken County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 2, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 434 AM EDT THU JUN 2 2011 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-030845- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 434 AM EDT THU JUN 2 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS OVER THE REGION. HEAT INDICES WILL APPROACH 100 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 2, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 62 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2011Every special weather statement 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.