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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Columbia, SC

August 8, 2017Bamberg County, Barnwell County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT for Bamberg County, Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 8, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 303 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2017-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2017-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 7, 6:00 PM EDT, 19 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:00 PM EDT, 19 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 1:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBarnwell39 min
Aug 8, 2:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEOrangeburg49 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.