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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2012, 5:59 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 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 10, 2012, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Burke County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 10, 2:44 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:44 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:08 AM EDT, 14 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 308 AM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-111000- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 308 AM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY CENTRAL AND WEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:59 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
559 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012
GAZ077-102300-
BURKE-
559 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF WESTERN BURKE COUNTY
THROUGH 700 PM EDT...
AT 558 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...17 MILES SOUTH OF KEYSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE AREA NEAR THE BURKE AND JEFFERSON
COUNTY LINE.
THE STORM WILL LIKELY CONTAIN WIND GUSTS NEAR 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
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LAT...LON 3293 8225 3295 8228 3308 8230 3315 8228
3322 8224 3326 8225 3320 8194
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 202DEG 21KT 3304 8225The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 3 hr |
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.