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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

July 17, 2016Lancaster County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2016, 7:11 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 17, 2016, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Lancaster County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1079 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg, Orangeburg	61 min
Jul 16, 9:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	2 hr
Jul 16, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	42 min
Jul 17, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richland	22 min
Jul 17, 4:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Richland	55 min
Jul 17, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield	21 min
Jul 17, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	48 min
Jul 17, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	McCormick	51 min
Jul 17, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick	43 min
Jul 16, 8:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Columbia, Richmond	55 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.