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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Columbia, SC

March 3, 2020Fairfield County, Newberry County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2020, 2:19 PM EST for Fairfield County, Newberry County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
Mar 3, 2020, 2:19 PM EST (19:19 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2020, 2:45 PM EST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 319 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 2020-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 224 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 2020-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 9:32 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningCAEOrangeburg21 days
Mar 3, 1:47 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield, Lancaster, Newberry28 min
Mar 3, 2:33 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAEChesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw42 min
Mar 3, 2:42 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington33 min
Mar 3, 3:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Kershaw, Richland46 min
Mar 3, 3:40 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAESaluda50 min
Mar 3, 5:28 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAELee32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.