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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

August 8, 2016Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2016, 2:22 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. 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: Aug 8, 2016, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 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 Aug 8, 1:51 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:51 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 3:37 AM EDT, 10 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
222 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016

SCZ027-028-037-081900-
LEXINGTON-RICHLAND-CALHOUN-
222 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN...SOUTH
CENTRAL RICHLAND AND EAST CENTRAL LEXINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 221 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PINE
RIDGE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAYCE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20
MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COLUMBIA...WEST COLUMBIA...CAYCE...FOREST ACRES...SPRINGDALE...
COLUMBIA METRO AIRPORT...DENTSVILLE...OAK GROVE...ST. ANDREWS...
SOUTH CONGAREE...PINE RIDGE...ARCADIA LAKES...
FIVE POINTS AND WOODFIELD.

LAT...LON 3383 8082 3377 8098 3396 8120 3409 8096
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 147DEG 16KT 3386 8096

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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.