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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

December 29, 2016Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Dec 29, 2016, 8:26 AM EST for Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia. 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: Dec 29, 2016, 8:26 AM EST (13:26 UTC)
Expired: Dec 29, 2016, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 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: 405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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
Dec 29, 2:44 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 10 more	37 hr
Dec 29, 6:11 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken, Chesterfield, Edgefield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee and 5 more	49 min
Dec 29, 7:44 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken	46 min
Dec 29, 8:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	30 min
Dec 29, 9:15 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun	45 min
Dec 29, 10:46 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Clarendon	44 min
Dec 29, 8:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Columbia, McDuffie	26 min
Dec 29, 8:31 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	44 min
Dec 29, 9:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	41 min
Dec 29, 10:12 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Burke	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 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.