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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Columbia, SC

May 3, 20224 counties in South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2022, 5:55 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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 3, 2022, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2022, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 299 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 3, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland28 min
May 3, 3:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEEdgefield, Newberry, Saluda27 min
May 3, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington39 min
May 3, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry, Saluda34 min
May 3, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw, Richland28 min
May 3, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Newberry25 min
May 3, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland24 min
May 3, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELee37 min
May 3, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Richland, Sumter35 min
May 3, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield, Lancaster24 min
May 3, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee34 min
May 3, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEBamberg29 min
May 3, 5:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELee34 min
May 3, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEAiken30 min
May 3, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAESumter34 min
May 3, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon, Lee, Sumter25 min
May 3, 6:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun36 min
May 3, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon, Lee, Sumter31 min
May 3, 6:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun27 min
May 3, 6:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEOrangeburg49 min
May 3, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEClarendon25 min
May 3, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEClarendon31 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.