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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

June 15, 2017Aiken County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2017, 9:09 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 15, 2017, 9:09 PM EDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2017, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC

County Aiken County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 287 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 00:00Z on 2017-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 00:00Z on 2017-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -88 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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, 9:20 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
Jun 16, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw, Lee52 min

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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.