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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

May 2, 2016Edgefield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at May 2, 2016, 9:15 PM EDT for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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: May 2, 2016, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2016, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Edgefield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.

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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: 512 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 2, 6:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 6:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 2:48 AM EDT, 18 hours 27 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
248 AM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-030915-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
248 AM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT COULD POSSIBLY CONTAIN DAMAGING
WIND AND HAIL. HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY COULD POSSIBLY CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND AND
HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 5:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
508 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0434 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LANCASTER               34.73N 80.78W
05/02/2016                   LANCASTER          SC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN IN LANCASTER. WOODLAND
            DRIVE AND OTHER LOCATIONS.

&&

DA

Special weather statement, May 2, 6:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 7:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 7:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 8:38 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
838 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

GAZ063>065-077-SCZ018-025-030-030115-
MCDUFFIE-BURKE-RICHMOND-COLUMBIA-MCCORMICK-EDGEFIELD-AIKEN-
838 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN MCDUFFIE...SOUTHERN
COLUMBIA...NORTHWESTERN BURKE...RICHMOND...SOUTHWESTERN EDGEFIELD...
SOUTHEASTERN MCCORMICK AND WEST CENTRAL AIKEN COUNTIES...

AT 838 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER FORT GORDON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH AUGUSTA...GROVETOWN...EVANS...CLEARWATER...BELVEDERE...AUGUSTA...FORT
GORDON...MARTINEZ...HEPHZIBAH...HARLEM...GLOVERVILLE...BURNETTOWN...BLYTHE...
DEARING...KEYSVILLE AND MURPHYS ESTATES.

LAT...LON 3341 8240 3370 8198 3346 8177 3323 8222
      3324 8225 3327 8226 3327 8229 3330 8231
      3331 8234 3331 8239 3333 8243
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 232DEG 23KT 3340 8214

CJR

Special weather statement, May 2, 9:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
915 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

GAZ064-065-SCZ018-025-030-030145-
RICHMOND-COLUMBIA-MCCORMICK-EDGEFIELD-AIKEN-
915 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN COLUMBIA...
NORTHEASTERN RICHMOND...SOUTHERN EDGEFIELD...SOUTHEASTERN MCCORMICK
AND NORTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTIES...

AT 915 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BELVEDERE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
AIKEN...NORTH AUGUSTA...GROVETOWN...EVANS...CLEARWATER...BELVEDERE...
AUGUSTA...FORT GORDON...MARTINEZ...EDGEFIELD...GLOVERVILLE...BURNETTOWN...
TRENTON AND MURPHYS ESTATES.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3337 8208 3350 8231 3384 8191 3362 8161
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 224DEG 18KT 3357 8200

CJR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield	51 min
May 2, 11:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	40 min
May 2, 11:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Saluda	18 min
May 3, 3:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun, Sumter	28 min
May 3, 7:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon	60 min
May 3, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	64 min
May 3, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	29 min
May 3, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Lexington	41 min
May 2, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richmond	37 min
May 2, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie	50 min
May 3, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	58 min

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Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2016 Every special weather statement 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.