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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Columbia, SC

July 6, 2016Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2016, 2:48 PM EDT for Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 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, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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 6, 3:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	11 Nne Thomson, GA	TREES AND LARGE LIMBS REPORTED DOWN IN THE WINFIELD COMMUNITY.

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

430 
WUUS52 KCAE 061848
SVRCAE
GAC073-181-189-061945-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0085.160706T1848Z-160706T1945Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
248 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 247 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF LINCOLNTON TO NEAR THOMSON...MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

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

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  THOMSON AND LINCOLNTON. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3364 8261 3363 8261 3364 8259 3363 8258
      3365 8258 3364 8256 3364 8252 3366 8251
      3365 8249 3381 8258 3380 8230 3348 8230
      3348 8260 3362 8263
TIME...MOT...LOC 1847Z 271DEG 34KT 3381 8260 3350 8257 

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

1 follow-up statement

097 
WWUS52 KCAE 061910
SVSCAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
310 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

GAC073-181-189-061945-
/O.CON.KCAE.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-160706T1945Z/
MCDUFFIE GA-COLUMBIA GA-LINCOLN GA-
310 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN MCDUFFIE...NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA AND SOUTHERN
LINCOLN COUNTIES...

AT 309 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MCCORMICK TO NEAR THOMSON...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THOMSON AND LINCOLNTON. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3364 8261 3363 8261 3364 8259 3363 8258
      3365 8258 3364 8256 3364 8252 3366 8251
      3365 8249 3381 8258 3380 8230 3348 8230
      3348 8260 3362 8263
TIME...MOT...LOC 1909Z 273DEG 32KT 3378 8231 3349 8243 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$
FWA

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	Lincoln	65 min
Jul 6, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lincoln	33 min
Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie	40 min
Jul 6, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richmond	50 min
Jul 6, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	52 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.