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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 2014Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2014, 3:58 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
Jun 12, 2014, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2014, 6:00 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 19:59 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2014-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 711 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2014-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 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
711 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 11, 6:31 PM EDT, 21 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 6:31 PM EDT, 21 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 12:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry43 min
Jun 12, 1:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry36 min
Jun 12, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington48 min
Jun 12, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBarnwell52 min
Jun 12, 3:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAELexington, Richland60 min
Jun 12, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland50 min
Jun 12, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun58 min
Jun 12, 6:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEClarendon66 min
Jun 12, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry54 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2014Every flash flood warning in 2014

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.