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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

June 8, 2015Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2015, 10:16 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2015, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2015, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 287 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 418 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 8, 9:50 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:50 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 6:27 AM EDT, 15 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 10:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Barnwell	57 min
Jun 9, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Orangeburg	50 min
Jun 9, 2:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	2 hr
Jun 9, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	52 min
Jun 9, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg	58 min
Jun 9, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	64 min
Jun 9, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	54 min
Jun 9, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw	45 min
Jun 9, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw	35 min
Jun 9, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	61 min
Jun 9, 2:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lincoln	115 min
Jun 9, 3:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	McDuffie	118 min
Jun 9, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	62 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.