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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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 11, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Burke County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 11, 1:45 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:45 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 212 AM EDT MON JUN 11 2012 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-121000- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 212 AM EDT MON JUN 11 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 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 1:37 PM EDT, 54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 9:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 78 min |
| Jun 11, 11:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 108 min |
| Jun 11, 12:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 12:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Richland | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 12:39 PM EDT | Flood Watch | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more | 39 hr |
| Jun 11, 12:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield and 7 more | 111 min |
| Jun 11, 1:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Orangeburg | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 1:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Bamberg, Clarendon, Lee, Orangeburg, Sumter | 112 min |
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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.