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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

August 14, 2012Aiken County, Bamberg County, Barnwell County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2012, 8:16 PM EDT for Aiken County, Bamberg County, Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 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: Aug 14, 2012, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2012, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC

The radar

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The text

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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 Aug 14, 7:53 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 7:53 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 7:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
702 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ018-025-030-035-150015-
AIKEN-BARNWELL-BURKE-COLUMBIA-EDGEFIELD-LINCOLN-MCCORMICK-MCDUFFIE-
RICHMOND-
702 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF RICHMOND...
MCDUFFIE...LINCOLN...BURKE...COLUMBIA...EDGEFIELD...MCCORMICK...AIKEN
AND BARNWELL COUNTIES THROUGH 815 PM EDT...

AT 654 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTH OF
DEARING TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BELVEDERE...CLEARWATER...JACKSON...NORTH AUGUSTA...AUGUSTA...EVANS...
FORT GORDON...GROVETOWN...HARLEM...HEPHZIBAH...MARTINEZ...SARDIS...
THOMSON AND WAYNESBORO...

PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
HEAVY RAINFALL...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1...8 7
7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.

&&

LAT...LON 3377 8212 3311 8159 3309 8160 3304 8154
      3297 8165 3293 8182 3294 8188 3292 8196
      3291 8208 3285 8213 3282 8228 3285 8232
      3293 8228 3308 8230 3324 8225 3331 8234
      3335 8255 3341 8255 3346 8260 3361 8265
TIME...MOT...LOC 2301Z 269DEG 23KT 3332 8233 3297 8221

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	21 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.