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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Columbia, SC

June 16, 2017Kershaw County, Lee County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2017, 6:23 PM EDT for Kershaw County, Lee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2017, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2017, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 209 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 12:00Z on 2017-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 413 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2017-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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
Jun 15, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun31 min
Jun 15, 9:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEAiken36 min
Jun 15, 9:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland25 min
Jun 15, 9:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry38 min
Jun 15, 9:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington30 min
Jun 15, 9:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland27 min
Jun 15, 10:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAELexington, Richland117 min
Jun 15, 11:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCAELexington, Richland115 min
Jun 16, 12:25 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEAiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland2 hr
Jun 16, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington48 min
Jun 16, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBarnwell43 min
Jun 16, 5:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELee, Sumter38 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.