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Lake Wind Advisory 1, NWS Columbia, SC

January 7, 2017Calhoun County, Clarendon County, Sumter County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 7, 2017, 3:44 AM EST for Calhoun County, Clarendon County, Sumter County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jan 7, 2017, 8:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 2017, 3:44 AM EST (08:44 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 7, 2017, 8:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 7, 2017, 6:00 PM EST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Calhoun County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2017-01-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2017-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
105 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
523 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 6:07 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCAEChesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry, Richland and 1 more7 hr
Jan 7, 1:58 PM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryCAEChesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Newberry20 hr

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.