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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Columbia, SC

July 14, 2015Clarendon County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2015, 12:37 PM EDT for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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 14, 2015, 12:37 PM EDT (16:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2015, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Clarendon County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 12:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 3:28 AM EDT, 9 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
328 AM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-
150730-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
328 AM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN ENHANCED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER SOUTHERN AREAS...WITH A MARGINAL
THREAT CENTRAL AREAS...WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	48 min
Jul 13, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	46 min
Jul 13, 9:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry, Richland	56 min
Jul 13, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	22 min
Jul 13, 10:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	2 hr
Jul 13, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee	58 min
Jul 13, 10:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Richland, Sumter	62 min
Jul 13, 11:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lee, Sumter	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.