Alert archive / South Carolina / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this red flag warning at Nov 19, 2016, 3:27 AM EST for 5 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Nov 19, 2016, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 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
- Nov 19, 2016, 3:27 AM EST (08:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 19, 2016, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2016, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
Counties Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
693 WWUS82 KCAE 190827 RFWCAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 327 AM EST SAT NOV 19 2016 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>028-030-035>037-041- 192300- /O.NEW.KCAE.FW.W.0001.161119T1600Z-161119T2300Z/ LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-AIKEN-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-BAMBERG- 327 AM EST SAT NOV 19 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND SHIFTING WINDS FOR MOST OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH, SHIFTING NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON BEHIND A PASSING COLD FRONT. * TIMING...THE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL MAINLY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 TO 25 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...GUSTY WINDS AND DRY VEGETATION WILL LIKELY CAUSE ANY WILDFIRES THAT DEVELOP TO GROW AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 3:13 AM EST | Freeze Watch | CAE | Lincoln | 11 hr |
| Nov 19, 3:13 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 26 hr |
| Nov 19, 2:36 PM EST | Freeze Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 18 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in South Carolina, 2016Red Flag Warnings in Georgia, 2016Every red flag 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.