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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

June 14, 2016Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2016, 5:20 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2016, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Fairfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-p

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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jun 14, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:38 AM EDT, 13 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:47 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
447 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

SCZ016-142130-
CHESTERFIELD-
447 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN CHESTERFIELD
COUNTY...

AT 446 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CHESTERFIELD...OR 8
MILES NORTHWEST OF CHERAW...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHERAW...PAGELAND...CHESTERFIELD...RUBY...
MOUNT CROGHAN AND MCFARLAN.

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 3460 7981 3453 7983 3453 7984 3452 7985
      3477 8038 3482 8030 3481 7994 3476 7993
      3474 7989 3468 7986 3465 7980 3464 7980
      3461 7978
TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 288DEG 17KT 3475 8003

FWA

Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:58 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
458 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

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

0457 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SAINT MATTHEWS          33.67N 80.78W
06/14/2016                   CALHOUN            SC   UTILITY COMPANY

            779 POWER OUTAGES REPORTED IN CALHOUN COUNTY
            IN AND AROUND ST MATTHEWS.

&&

DA

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
509 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

GAZ077-142200-
BURKE-
509 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL BURKE AND SOUTHWESTERN
BARNWELL COUNTIES...

AT 509 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR PERKINS...OR 9 MILES
SOUTH OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO...SARDIS AND GIRARD.

LAT...LON 3295 8211 3325 8193 3316 8176 3312 8171
      3311 8166 3310 8165 3294 8182 3295 8186
      3292 8196 3292 8205
TIME...MOT...LOC 2109Z 213DEG 9KT 3296 8196

CJR

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
520 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

SCZ015-021-022-142145-
FAIRFIELD-LANCASTER-KERSHAW-
520 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WEST CENTRAL KERSHAW...
SOUTHWESTERN LANCASTER AND NORTHEASTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTIES...

AT 519 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GREAT FALLS...OR 11
MILES NORTHEAST OF WINNSBORO. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

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

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
FAIRFIELD...SOUTHWESTERN LANCASTER AND WEST CENTRAL KERSHAW COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 3435 8079 3442 8109 3455 8106 3455 8090
      3454 8088 3457 8087 3460 8089 3462 8076
TIME...MOT...LOC 2119Z 274DEG 4KT 3450 8096

CJR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield	37 min
Jun 14, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington, Richland	38 min
Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	30 min
Jun 14, 2:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick	110 min
Jun 14, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	49 min
Jun 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg	38 min
Jun 14, 3:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Richland	2 hr
Jun 14, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland	60 min
Jun 14, 3:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	114 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	45 min
Jun 14, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	43 min
Jun 14, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland, Sumter	47 min
Jun 14, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	43 min
Jun 14, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	40 min
Jun 14, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	49 min
Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	51 min
Jun 14, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie	51 min

Nearby

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.