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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

June 10, 2018Aiken County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2018, 10:17 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 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 10, 2018, 10:17 PM EDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2018, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

County Aiken County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 316 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1815 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1356 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 10, 10:16 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:16 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:06 AM EDT, 19 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 9:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:17 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield	67 min
Jun 10, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Saluda	36 min
Jun 10, 9:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	33 min
Jun 10, 10:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	44 min
Jun 10, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	41 min
Jun 11, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richland	18 min
Jun 11, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun, Sumter	27 min
Jun 11, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Richland, Sumter	53 min
Jun 11, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Sumter	53 min
Jun 11, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	28 min
Jun 11, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield	29 min
Jun 11, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Barnwell	33 min
Jun 11, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Barnwell	32 min
Jun 11, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	61 min
Jun 11, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	28 min
Jun 11, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lee	27 min
Jun 11, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	30 min
Jun 11, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken	28 min
Jun 11, 7:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lancaster	3 hr
Jun 11, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	32 min
Jun 11, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lincoln	35 min
Jun 11, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	62 min
Jun 11, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, McDuffie	62 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richmond	36 min
Jun 11, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	61 min
Jun 11, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	55 min

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Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.