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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2013, 3:33 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 1, 2013, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2013, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 1, 2:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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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, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lancaster and 3 more | 86 min |
| Aug 1, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw | 43 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
Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2013Every special weather statement 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.