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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

August 14, 2016Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2016, 1:47 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 28 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 14, 2016, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2016, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 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 17:48 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 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 14, 11:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 11:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 3:08 AM EDT, 10 hours 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
308 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-150715-
LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD-
MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON-
RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON-
BAMBERG-
308 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 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 WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD POSSIBLY CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

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, Aug 14, 1:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
147 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

SCZ021-141815-
FAIRFIELD-
147 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD
COUNTY...

AT 146 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CARLISLE...OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTER...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.

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 3457 8125 3456 8123 3444 8123 3442 8141
      3445 8142 3457 8142
TIME...MOT...LOC 1746Z 174DEG 22KT 3451 8136

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 11:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	McCormick	58 min
Aug 14, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	16 min
Aug 14, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	51 min
Aug 14, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	26 min
Aug 14, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	67 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.