Alert archive / South Carolina / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this red flag warning at Jan 25, 2014, 3:37 AM EST for 5 counties in Georgia; 16 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Jan 25, 2014, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 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
- Jan 25, 2014, 3:37 AM EST (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2014, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2014, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 08:37 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
694 WWUS82 KCAE 250837 RFWCAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 337 AM EST SAT JAN 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING... .AN INCREASING PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WITH RESULT IN STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS FROM THIS MORNING INTO TONIGHT. THE STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DURING THE LATE MORNING AND THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASED FIRE DANGER THREAT. GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041- 252300- /O.UPG.KCAE.FW.A.0001.140125T1600Z-140125T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KCAE.FW.W.0001.140125T1600Z-140125T2300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 337 AM EST SAT JAN 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING: 1100 AM TO 600 PM SATURDAY. * WIND: SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS 35 TO 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY: 20 TO 25 PERCENT. * IMPACTS: ANY FIRES MAY QUICKLY SPREAD AND GROW OUT OF CONTROL DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF DRY VEGETATION...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 10:13 PM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 22 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in South Carolina, 2014Red Flag Warnings in Georgia, 2014Every red flag 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.