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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

July 16, 2016Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2016, 3:07 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 16, 2016, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Richmond County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 16, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 3:06 AM EDT, 12 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
306 AM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-170715-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
306 AM EDT SAT JUL 16 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 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD POSSIBLY CONTAIN
DAMAGING WIND. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO CONTAIN HEAVY
RAIN WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

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, Jul 16, 3:07 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
307 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

GAZ065-SCZ030-161945-
RICHMOND-AIKEN-
307 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN RICHMOND AND
SOUTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTIES...

AT 306 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR AUGUSTA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAIN
IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH AUGUSTA...CLEARWATER...AUGUSTA...BELVEDERE...HEPHZIBAH...
JACKSON...GLOVERVILLE AND BURNETTOWN.

LAT...LON 3327 8206 3346 8209 3358 8179 3333 8171
TIME...MOT...LOC 1906Z 253DEG 6KT 3341 8192

AWP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry	30 min
Jul 15, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Barnwell	64 min
Jul 15, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	32 min
Jul 15, 8:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	113 min
Jul 15, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg	51 min
Jul 15, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg, Calhoun, Orangeburg	42 min
Jul 15, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	66 min
Jul 15, 11:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lee, Sumter	59 min
Jul 16, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken	58 min
Jul 16, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	41 min
Jul 16, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Aiken	112 min
Jul 16, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield, Lexington, Richland	46 min
Jul 16, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Richland	46 min
Jul 16, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	44 min
Jul 16, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	29 min
Jul 16, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee	41 min
Jul 16, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richmond	32 min

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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.