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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

June 30, 20154 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2015, 2:02 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 43 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 30, 2015, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2015, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1029 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

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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 30, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	40 min
Jun 30, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield, Newberry, Saluda	49 min
Jun 30, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	57 min
Jun 30, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg	51 min
Jun 30, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	45 min
Jun 30, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	44 min
Jun 30, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	60 min
Jun 30, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Calhoun, Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Orangeburg and 2 more	58 min
Jun 30, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Orangeburg	65 min
Jun 30, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Lee, Sumter	27 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2015 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.