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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Columbia, SC

May 1, 2022Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2022, 7:04 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
May 1, 2022, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 2022, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2022-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2022-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 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
May 1, 3:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAESaluda38 min
May 1, 3:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry34 min
May 1, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELancaster32 min
May 1, 6:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBamberg25 min
May 1, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington39 min
May 1, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Newberry, Saluda36 min
May 1, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatCAELexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda36 min
May 1, 7:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington42 min

Nearby

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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.