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Lake Wind Advisory 16, NWS Columbia, SC

December 17, 201516 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Dec 17, 2015, 10:05 PM EST for 16 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Dec 18, 2015, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 2015, 10:05 PM EST (03:05 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 18, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 18, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
In force
12 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 03:08 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2015-12-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2015-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 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
Dec 18, 12:41 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryCAELexington, Richland48 hr
Dec 18, 1:05 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington, Richland3 days

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2015Lake Wind Advisories in Georgia, 2015Every lake wind advisory in 2015

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.