Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2016, 2:17 PM EDT for Aiken County, Lexington County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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 6, 2016, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Aiken County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 6, 2:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 S Batesburg, SC | INDIAN TRAIL GOLF COURSE REPORTED NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
229 WUUS52 KCAE 061817 SVRCAE SCC003-063-081-061915- /O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0083.160706T1817Z-160706T1915Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 217 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SALUDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... SOUTHWESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... NORTH CENTRAL AIKEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 216 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF BATESBURG-LEESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BATESBURG...BATESBURG-LEESVILLE...LEESVILLE...GILBERT...SUMMIT AND MONETTA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3385 8162 3399 8159 3398 8133 3368 8141 TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 266DEG 16KT 3391 8158 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Richland | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun, Sumter | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Richland, Sumter | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Clarendon | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Clarendon | 30 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.