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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2015, 10:49 PM EDT for Edgefield County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 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
- Sep 4, 2015, 10:49 PM EDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2015, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Edgefield County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 301 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 4, 9:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 9:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 344 PM EDT FRI SEP 4 2015 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-051945- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 344 PM EDT FRI SEP 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 6:34 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 10:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Saluda | 58 min |
| Sep 4, 10:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Clarendon, Lee, Sumter | 46 min |
| Sep 4, 11:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Lee, Sumter | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 11:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | McCormick | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 11:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 12:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 52 min |
| Sep 5, 1:00 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 1:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 114 min |
| Sep 5, 1:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 58 min |
| Sep 5, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 52 min |
| Sep 5, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 67 min |
| Sep 5, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 47 min |
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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.