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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

May 15, 2014Aiken County, Edgefield County, Saluda County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2014, 2:59 AM EDT for Aiken County, Edgefield County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 61 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: May 15, 2014, 2:59 AM EDT (06:59 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

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The text

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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 May 15, 1:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 1:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 15, 2:59 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 3:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry, Saluda	43 min
May 15, 5:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington, Richland	114 min
May 15, 6:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Richland	2 hr
May 15, 6:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 8 more	114 min
May 15, 8:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Orangeburg and 1 more	117 min
May 15, 2:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington, Richland	65 min
May 15, 3:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Calhoun, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee and 2 more	3 hr
May 15, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Kershaw	53 min
May 15, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	40 min
May 15, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon	55 min
May 15, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon	29 min
May 15, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Sumter	39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.