Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2014, 3:39 PM EDT for Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 22 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
- Sep 12, 2014, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2014, 4:01 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 323 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
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 12, 1:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun | 53 min |
| Sep 12, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun, Sumter | 60 min |
| Sep 12, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell | 58 min |
| Sep 12, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee, Lexington, Richland, Sumter | 51 min |
| Sep 12, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 25 min |
| Sep 12, 3:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 92 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.