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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2016, 4:06 PM EDT for Chesterfield 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
- Jul 11, 2016, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Chesterfield County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 10, 7:46 PM EDT, 20 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 7:46 PM EDT, 20 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 1:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 23 min |
| Jul 11, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 27 min |
| Jul 11, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Fairfield | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 2:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Chesterfield | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Fairfield | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lancaster | 43 min |
| Jul 11, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee | 48 min |
| Jul 11, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Sumter | 66 min |
| Jul 11, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee | 63 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.