Alert archive / South Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2016, 6:44 PM EDT for Lee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 2, 2016, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Lee County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 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 Jun 2, 2:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 4:15 AM EDT, 14 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 415 AM EDT THU JUN 2 2016 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-030815- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 415 AM EDT THU JUN 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. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:44 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
644 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016
SCZ016-022-029-022330-
LEE-CHESTERFIELD-KERSHAW-
644 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL KERSHAW...SOUTH
CENTRAL CHESTERFIELD AND NORTHWESTERN LEE COUNTIES...
AT 643 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLYDE...
OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISHOPVILLE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BISHOPVILLE...MCBEE AND BETHUNE.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3418 8042 3438 8053 3454 8019 3444 8015
3436 8029 3434 8025 3432 8024 3434 8021
3436 8020 3437 8018 3432 8017 3428 8013
3424 8012
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 250DEG 3KT 3434 8031The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw, Lee, Richland | 65 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2016Every 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.