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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Columbia, SC

August 1, 2013Fairfield County, Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2013, 6:17 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 2013, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 1, 6:01 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 6:01 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 5:23 AM EDT, 12 hours 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
523 AM EDT THU AUG 1 2013

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-020930-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
523 AM EDT THU AUG 1 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A WEAK COLD FRONT IN THE REGION WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. A FEW MAY BECOME STRONG AND APPROACH SEVERE
LIMITS.

SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY OCCUR ON SOME OF THE AREA RIVERS TODAY.
FOR THE LATEST RIVER INFORMATION AND FORECASTS...GO TO
WWW.ERH.NOAA.GOV/CAE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

MINOR FLOODING ON SOME OF THE AREA RIVERS MAY CONTINUE FRIDAY.
FOR THE LATEST RIVER INFORMATION AND FORECASTS...GO TO
WWW.ERH.NOAA.GOV/CAE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:33 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 6:08 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 8:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lancaster and 3 more	86 min
Aug 1, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	42 min
Aug 1, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	57 min
Aug 1, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda	63 min
Aug 1, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield	53 min
Aug 1, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.