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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Columbia, SC

July 18, 2017Chesterfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2017, 6:34 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
Jul 18, 2017, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2017, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Chesterfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 2017-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 951 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 2017-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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
Jul 18, 3:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBamberg38 min
Jul 18, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Richland34 min
Jul 18, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun43 min
Jul 18, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Orangeburg44 min
Jul 18, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELancaster43 min
Jul 18, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2017Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017

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.