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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2021, 4:14 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 9, 2021, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
County Chesterfield County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
535
WWUS82 KCAE 092014
SPSCAE
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Columbia SC
414 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021
SCZ016-022-116-092100-
Chesterfield SC-Southern Lancaster SC-Kershaw SC-
414 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021
...Strong Thunderstorms Will Impact Portions of Chesterfield...
Southern Lancaster and northeastern Kershaw Counties Until 500 PM
EDT....
At 414 PM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated
strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Pageland to
near Mt Pisgah, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...gusty winds 40 to 50 mph.
IMPACT...expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light, unsecured objects.
Some locations in the path of these storms include...
Pageland, Chesterfield, Carolina Sandhills Wildlife Refuge, Mt
Pisgah, Mcbee, Jefferson, Ruby, Patrick, Mount Croghan, Chesterfield
Ruby Middle School, High Point Fire Station, Alligator Fire Station,
Middendorf, Bay Springs Fire Station, Taxahaw, Chesterfield Detention
Center and Central High School.
LAT...LON 3449 8005 3440 8022 3442 8023 3444 8048
3482 8054 3481 8004 3449 8003
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 288DEG 21KT 3476 8049 3448 8044
$$
gplThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | McCormick | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Saluda | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw | 24 min |
| Jul 9, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw, Lee | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun, Orangeburg | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lancaster | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Clarendon | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lincoln | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.