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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Columbia, SC

July 19, 20154 counties in South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 67 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 19, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2015, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

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

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 2015-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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 2015-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 18, 8:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon, Orangeburg59 min
Jul 18, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg43 min
Jul 19, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBamberg, Barnwell31 min
Jul 19, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Barnwell46 min
Jul 19, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEOrangeburg51 min
Jul 19, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Barnwell25 min
Jul 19, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Newberry24 min
Jul 19, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Newberry59 min
Jul 19, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland44 min
Jul 19, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw, Lancaster, Lee66 min
Jul 19, 7:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAERichland59 min
Jul 19, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Barnwell, Calhoun, Edgefield, Kershaw, Lexington and 3 more64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2015Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.