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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

August 5, 2015Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 60 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: Aug 5, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2387 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 5, 7:36 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 7:36 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 3:07 AM EDT, 16 hours 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
307 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2015

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-060715-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
307 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

HOT TEMPERATURES FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON UP TO AROUND 102...WITH
HEAT INDEX VALUES RANGING FROM 102 TO 107.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 6:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 8:00 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
Aug 6, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster, Newberry	59 min
Aug 6, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	33 min
Aug 6, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	34 min
Aug 6, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield, Fairfield, Lancaster	60 min
Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda	35 min
Aug 6, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	54 min
Aug 6, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Richland and 1 more	58 min
Aug 6, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Lexington, McCormick, Saluda	55 min
Aug 6, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	38 min
Aug 6, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Fairfield, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Richland and 1 more	48 min
Aug 6, 5:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	118 min
Aug 6, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lee, Richland, Sumter	54 min
Aug 6, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland, Sumter	44 min
Aug 6, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, Lexington, Orangeburg and 1 more	57 min
Aug 6, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	44 min
Aug 6, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland	40 min
Aug 6, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg	33 min
Aug 6, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg	47 min
Aug 6, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland	116 min
Aug 6, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter	54 min
Aug 6, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee	42 min
Aug 6, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon, Orangeburg	59 min
Aug 6, 7:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	2 hr
Aug 6, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	37 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.