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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this freeze watch at Nov 19, 2016, 3:13 AM EST for 6 counties in South Carolina; Lincoln County, Georgia. It took effect at Nov 20, 2016, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 19, 2016, 3:13 AM EST (08:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 20, 2016, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2016, 2:36 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
Counties Lincoln County, GA, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Nov 19, 1:04 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 19, 1:04 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Nov 19, 3:13 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more | 26 hr |
| Nov 19, 3:27 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Edgefield and 7 more | 15 hr |
| Nov 19, 2:36 PM EST | Freeze Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Edgefield, Fairfield, McCormick, Newberry, Saluda | 18 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in South Carolina, 2016Freeze Watches in Georgia, 2016Every freeze watch 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.