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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Columbia, SC

July 5, 2013Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2013, 4:13 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 5, 2013, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 246 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2013-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 948 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2013-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 3:18 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCAECalhoun, Richland, Sumter14 days
Jul 5, 10:17 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCAEGreenwood, Newberry, Saluda59 hr
Jul 5, 1:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAECalhoun, Lexington, Richland119 min
Jul 5, 1:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEEdgefield50 min
Jul 5, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEAiken, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda56 min
Jul 5, 2:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAERichland83 min
Jul 5, 2:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEAiken, Calhoun, Edgefield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and 4 more111 min
Jul 5, 3:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland63 min
Jul 5, 4:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEChesterfield, Lancaster52 min
Jul 5, 6:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAECalhoun, Richland2 hr
Jul 5, 6:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEKershaw, Lee, Sumter114 min
Jul 5, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBamberg, Calhoun, Orangeburg54 min
Jul 5, 7:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun, Lexington, Richland61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.