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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2015, 3:46 AM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 3, 2015, 3:46 AM EDT (07:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2015, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 740 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jul 3, 3:30 AM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:30 AM EDT, 16 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:47 PM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 346 AM EDT FRI JUL 3 2015 GAZ065-077-030815- BURKE-RICHMOND- 346 AM EDT FRI JUL 3 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN RICHMOND... NORTHWESTERN BURKE COUNTIES... AT 345 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR HEPHZIBAH...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT GORDON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HEPHZIBAH AND BLYTHE. LAT...LON 3333 8223 3337 8196 3319 8180 3318 8215 TIME...MOT...LOC 0745Z 270DEG 31KT 3328 8204 SJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 114 min |
| Jul 3, 9:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 11:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 34 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.