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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Nov 30, 2016, 5:21 PM EST for Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina; Columbia County, Lincoln County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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
- Nov 30, 2016, 5:21 PM EST (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2016, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted.
504
WWUS82 KCAE 302221
SPSCAE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
521 PM EST WED NOV 30 2016
GAZ040-063>065-SCZ018-025-026-030-302300-
MCDUFFIE-LINCOLN-RICHMOND-COLUMBIA-MCCORMICK-SALUDA-EDGEFIELD-AIKEN-
521 PM EST WED NOV 30 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL
MCDUFFIE...COLUMBIA... LINCOLN...NORTHERN RICHMOND...WESTERN
SALUDA...EDGEFIELD...MCCORMICK AND NORTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTIES...
AT 518 PM EST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE
CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA. THE STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TO THE
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH AUGUSTA...EVANS...THOMSON...MARTINEZ...BELVEDERE...EDGEFIELD...
SALUDA...MCCORMICK...JOHNSTON...LINCOLNTON...DEARING...TRENTON...
PARKSVILLE...WARD...PLUM BRANCH...MODOC...MURPHYS ESTATES...CLARKS
HILL AND WILLINGTON.
THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3393 8262 3401 8232 3397 8230 3402 8225
3397 8218 3398 8205 3395 8204 3396 8202
3411 8189 3413 8182 3362 8166 3339 8251
3364 8256 3366 8251 3365 8249 3382 8259
3386 8257 3386 8261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 241DEG 55KT 3363 8246
$$
AWPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Newberry | 65 min |
| Nov 30, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 39 min |
| Nov 30, 6:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Newberry | 54 min |
| Nov 30, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 17 min |
| Nov 30, 6:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.