Alert archive / South Carolina / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this areal flood warning at Sep 28, 2016, 2:01 AM EDT for Edgefield County, McCormick County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 28, 2016, 2:01 AM EDT (06:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2016, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 1579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Sep 27, 10:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 10:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 27, 4:30 AM EDT, 21 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 430 AM EDT TUE SEP 27 2016 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-280830- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 430 AM EDT TUE SEP 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. INCREASING MID LEVEL WINDS COMBINED WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY MAY LEAD TO SOME ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS WITH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee, Sumter | 26 min |
| Sep 28, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg | 28 min |
| Sep 28, 3:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 31 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 57 min |
| Sep 28, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Barnwell | 30 min |
| Sep 28, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 55 min |
| Sep 28, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Fairfield | 25 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2016Every areal flood warning in 2016
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.