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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Columbia, SC

July 8, 20165 counties in South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2016, 10:30 PM EDT for 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2016, 10:30 PM EDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 10:32 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	8 Ne Newberry, SC	REPORTED A FEW TREES DOWN ALONG WITH ONE POWER LINE DOWN IN THE AREA OF MT. BETHEL GARMANY ROAD AND HWY. 176. .
Jul 8, 10:33 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Nne Newberry, SC	REPORTED TREES DOWN NEAR MT. BETHEL GARMANY ROAD AND MILES ROAD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 14.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

702 
WUUS52 KCAE 090230
SVRCAE
SCC039-063-071-079-081-090315-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0113.160709T0230Z-160709T0315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1030 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SALUDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHWESTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
  FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
  NEWBERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHWESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 1115 PM EDT

* AT 1030 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARLISLE TO NEAR NEWBERRY TO 8
  MILES EAST OF GREENWOOD STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEWBERRY...WINNSBORO...WHITMIRE...PROSPERITY...CHAPIN...
  LITTLE MOUNTAIN...POMARIA...SILVERSTREET...PEAK...
  WINNSBORO MILLS...BLACKSTOCK...KINARDS AND LAKE MURRAY OF RICHLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3454 8088 3421 8114 3398 8152 3424 8191
      3430 8190 3437 8178 3453 8163 3445 8154
      3449 8149 3450 8142 3457 8142
TIME...MOT...LOC 0230Z 281DEG 32KT 3455 8137 3434 8157 3418 8181 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

LCV

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	65 min
Jul 8, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	49 min
Jul 8, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry, Saluda	67 min
Jul 8, 10:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	40 min
Jul 8, 11:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	60 min
Jul 8, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	38 min
Jul 8, 11:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick	49 min
Jul 8, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter	29 min
Jul 8, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell, Orangeburg	40 min
Jul 9, 12:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Lee, Richland, Sumter	45 min
Jul 9, 12:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg	48 min
Jul 9, 10:37 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon	8 hr
Jul 9, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Orangeburg	54 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.