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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2016, 7:22 PM EDT for Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 31, 2016, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Calhoun County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 31, 5:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 5:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 4:13 AM EDT, 15 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 413 AM EDT TUE MAY 31 2016 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-010815- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 413 AM EDT TUE MAY 31 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. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 7:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
722 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2016
SCZ027-028-030-036-037-010015-
LEXINGTON-RICHLAND-CALHOUN-ORANGEBURG-AIKEN-
722 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN ORANGEBURG...
NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN...SOUTHERN RICHLAND...SOUTHEASTERN LEXINGTON AND
EAST CENTRAL AIKEN COUNTIES...
AT 722 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GASTON...OR 14 MILES
SOUTH OF CAYCE...WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH.
WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GASTON...SWANSEA...NORTH...PELION AND WOODFORD.
LAT...LON 3383 8109 3380 8084 3372 8076 3359 8116
3375 8133
TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 012DEG 7KT 3375 8102
AWPNearby
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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.