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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, Kershaw County, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 7, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chesterfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 7, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 7, 2:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 421 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ018-025-030-035-036-041-082030- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-MCCORMICK-EDGEFIELD-AIKEN- BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-BAMBERG- 421 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN CLIMBING INTO THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES. THESE TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE TO CREATE HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SOME SEVERE...WILL BE THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES ON FRIDAY. AS A RESULT, CORRESPONDING HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCZ015-016-020>022-026>029-031-037-038-082030- LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-SUMTER-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- 421 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 349 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN CLIMBING INTO THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES. THESE TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE TO CREATE HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SOME SEVERE...WILL BE THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES ON FRIDAY. AS A RESULT, CORRESPONDING HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry, Richland | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lancaster | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Fairfield, Lancaster | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 42 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
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.