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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Columbia, SC

June 14, 2016Chesterfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2016, 5:05 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 14, 2016, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Chesterfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:38 AM EDT, 13 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:47 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
447 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

SCZ016-142130-
CHESTERFIELD-
447 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN CHESTERFIELD
COUNTY...

AT 446 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CHESTERFIELD...OR 8
MILES NORTHWEST OF CHERAW...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHERAW...PAGELAND...CHESTERFIELD...RUBY...
MOUNT CROGHAN AND MCFARLAN.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3460 7981 3453 7983 3453 7984 3452 7985
      3477 8038 3482 8030 3481 7994 3476 7993
      3474 7989 3468 7986 3465 7980 3464 7980
      3461 7978
TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 288DEG 17KT 3475 8003

FWA

Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:58 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
458 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0457 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SAINT MATTHEWS          33.67N 80.78W
06/14/2016                   CALHOUN            SC   UTILITY COMPANY

            779 POWER OUTAGES REPORTED IN CALHOUN COUNTY
            IN AND AROUND ST MATTHEWS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield	37 min
Jun 14, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington, Richland	38 min
Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	30 min
Jun 14, 2:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick	110 min
Jun 14, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	49 min
Jun 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg	38 min
Jun 14, 3:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Richland	2 hr
Jun 14, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland	60 min
Jun 14, 3:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	114 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	45 min
Jun 14, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	43 min
Jun 14, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland, Sumter	47 min
Jun 14, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	43 min
Jun 14, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield	25 min
Jun 14, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	49 min
Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	51 min
Jun 14, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie	51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.