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Lake Wind Advisory 1, NWS Columbia, SC

January 17, 201316 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 17, 2013, 3:27 AM EST for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 17, 2013, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 17, 2013, 3:27 AM EST (08:27 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 17, 2013, 1:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 18, 2013, 5:00 AM EST
In force
16 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 08:29 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 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 286 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 00:00Z on 2013-01-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2013-01-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 17, 1:58 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCAE8 hr
Jan 17, 2:31 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington, Richland4 days
Jan 17, 2:31 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningCAEFairfield, Newberry64 hr
Jan 17, 2:42 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryCAELexington, Richland3 days
Jan 17, 2:58 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland, Sumter62 min

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2013Lake Wind Advisories in Georgia, 2013Every lake wind advisory in 2013

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.