Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2016, 3:21 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 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, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Calhoun County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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, 3:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ene Red Bank, SC | LEXINGTON DISPATCH REPORTED TREES DOWN ON KITTI WAKE DR. |
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
668 WUUS52 KCAE 061921 SVRCAE SCC017-063-079-062015- /O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0088.160706T1921Z-160706T2015Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 321 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... CENTRAL LEXINGTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 321 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF IRMO TO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLUMBIA...LEXINGTON...WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE...IRMO...FOREST ACRES... SPRINGDALE...ST. ANDREWS...WOODFIELDS...RED BANK...DENTSVILLE...OAK GROVE...SOUTH CONGAREE...PINE RIDGE...GASTON...ARCADIA LAKES... WOODFIELD...FIVE POINTS...FORT JACKSON AND SWANSEA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3409 8088 3369 8085 3377 8138 3403 8141 TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 251DEG 19KT 3409 8139 3378 8137 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$
2 follow-up statements
114 WWUS52 KCAE 061945 SVSCAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 345 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016 SCC017-063-079-062015- /O.CON.KCAE.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-160706T2015Z/ CALHOUN SC-RICHLAND SC-LEXINGTON SC- 345 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN...CENTRAL RICHLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN LEXINGTON COUNTIES... AT 344 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WEST COLUMBIA SOUTHWARD TO SWANSEA. MOVEMENT WAS EASTWARD NEAR 30 MPH. SOME OF THE STORMS CONTAINED WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLUMBIA...WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE...IRMO...FOREST ACRES...SPRINGDALE...ST. ANDREWS...WOODFIELDS...DENTSVILLE...OAK GROVE...SOUTH CONGAREE...PINE RIDGE...GASTON...ARCADIA LAKES...WOODFIELD...FIVE POINTS...FORT JACKSON... SWANSEA AND SEVEN OAKS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3409 8088 3369 8085 3375 8119 3405 8120 TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 251DEG 19KT 3412 8128 3381 8126 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$
701
WWUS52 KCAE 061957
SVSCAE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
357 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016
SCC079-062005-
/O.CAN.KCAE.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-160706T2015Z/
RICHLAND SC-
357 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3369 8085 3373 8107 3373 8108 3381 8101
3383 8091 3381 8091 3381 8087
TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 251DEG 19KT 3413 8125 3382 8123
$$
SCC017-063-062015-
/O.CON.KCAE.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-160706T2015Z/
CALHOUN SC-LEXINGTON SC-
357 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN AND SOUTHEASTERN LEXINGTON COUNTIES...
AT 355 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SANDY RAIN AREA OF
CALHOUN COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 30 MPH. THE STORM
LIKELY CONTAINED WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN AND SOUTHEASTERN LEXINGTON COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3369 8085 3373 8107 3373 8108 3381 8101
3383 8091 3381 8091 3381 8087
TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 251DEG 19KT 3413 8125 3382 8123
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$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, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Lexington, Saluda | 58 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, 3:30 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.