Alert archive / South Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Feb 24, 2016, 7:37 AM EST for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 7:37 AM EST (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted.
751 WWUS82 KCAE 241237 SPSCAE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 737 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016 SCZ036-037-241300- CALHOUN-ORANGEBURG- 737 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL ORANGEBURG AND SOUTHEASTERN CALHOUN COUNTIES... AT 737 AM EST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BOWMAN...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORANGEBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ORANGEBURG...BROOKDALE...BOWMAN...ELLOREE...CAMERON...ROWESVILLE AND WILKINSON HEIGHTS. LAT...LON 3329 8072 3336 8091 3366 8074 3358 8053 TIME...MOT...LOC 1237Z 209DEG 39KT 3338 8077 $$ MANNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 5:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 5:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 6:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Barnwell | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 7:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 7:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 9:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | McCormick | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 10:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Saluda | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 10:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 11:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Saluda | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 1:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 2:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 3:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 3:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 19 min |
| Feb 24, 5:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 56 min |
Nearby
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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.