Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2014, 6:15 PM EDT for Newberry County, Saluda 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
- Sep 13, 2014, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2014, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Newberry County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 1:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Chesterfield | 83 min |
| Sep 13, 2:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 113 min |
| Sep 13, 3:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Kershaw | 111 min |
| Sep 13, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield | 29 min |
| Sep 13, 5:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Richland and 2 more | 116 min |
| Sep 13, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 50 min |
| Sep 13, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 35 min |
| Sep 13, 1:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 119 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.