Alert archive / South Carolina / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this red flag warning at Feb 11, 2012, 4:04 AM EST for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 11, 2012, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2012, 4:04 AM EST (09:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2012, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2012, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 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 09:08 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
131 WWUS82 KCAE 110904 RFWCAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 404 AM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...FIRE WEATHER WARNING FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA SATURDAY AFTERNOON... .WINDY CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CREATE AN ENHANCED RISK OF WILDFIRES AND ADVERSE FIRE BEHAVIOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON. GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041- 111715- /O.UPG.KCAE.FW.A.0001.120211T1700Z-120211T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KCAE.FW.W.0001.120211T1700Z-120211T2300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 404 AM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM EST SATURDAY. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 TO 24 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...HIGHS MOSTLY IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 50S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES MAY QUICKLY SPREAD AND GROW OUT OF CONTROL. FIRES MAY ALSO EASILY IGNITE DUE TO SPARKS AND DISCARDED SMOKING MATERIAL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
059 WWUS82 KCAE 111240 RFWCAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 740 AM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON... .WINDY CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CREATE AN ENHANCED RISK OF WILDFIRES AND ADVERSE FIRE BEHAVIOR THIS AFTERNOON. GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041- 112300- /O.CON.KCAE.FW.W.0001.120211T1700Z-120211T2300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 740 AM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...FROM NOON TO 6 PM TODAY. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 TO 24 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 50S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES MAY QUICKLY SPREAD AND GROW OUT OF CONTROL. FIRES MAY ALSO EASILY IGNITE DUE TO SPARKS AND DISCARDED SMOKING MATERIAL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in South Carolina, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Georgia, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012
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.