Alert archive / South Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 2016, 3:25 PM EST for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 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
- Feb 3, 2016, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2016, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
240
WGUS52 KCAE 032025
FFWCAE
SCC079-032130-
/O.NEW.KCAE.FF.W.0001.160203T2025Z-160203T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
325 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 430 PM EST
* AT 324 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COLUMBIA...FOREST ACRES...DENTSVILLE...ARCADIA LAKES AND FIVE
POINTS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...ALSO USE WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSCOLUMBIA AND EMAIL
CAEWX@NOAA.GOV TO RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3395 8101 3402 8107 3407 8098 3399 8090
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 11:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 52 min |
| Feb 3, 12:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 42 min |
| Feb 3, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland and 1 more | 50 min |
| Feb 3, 2:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw, Lexington, Richland | 58 min |
| Feb 3, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland, Sumter | 63 min |
| Feb 3, 2:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 55 min |
| Feb 3, 2:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 65 min |
| Feb 3, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Calhoun, Orangeburg | 42 min |
| Feb 3, 5:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg | 30 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2016Every flash 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.