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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC

July 5, 2015Fairfield County, Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2015, 7:47 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 118 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
Jul 5, 2015, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2015, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 2015-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 333 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 2015-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 3:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEClarendon67 min
Jul 5, 5:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBamberg, Orangeburg52 min
Jul 5, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland54 min
Jul 5, 7:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAELexington, Richland2 hr

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.