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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Columbia, SC

September 12, 2016Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 2016, 6:17 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 88 min. 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 12, 2016, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Orangeburg County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 11, 7:55 PM EDT, 22 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 7:55 PM EDT, 22 hours 22 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
Sep 12, 11:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lee	25 min
Sep 12, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield	36 min
Sep 12, 2:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Saluda	110 min
Sep 12, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Saluda	24 min
Sep 12, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	50 min
Sep 12, 4:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington, Richland	117 min
Sep 12, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	33 min
Sep 12, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield	34 min
Sep 12, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Orangeburg	45 min
Sep 12, 5:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Orangeburg	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 2016 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.