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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

March 31, 2022Fairfield County, Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2022, 12:21 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 31, 2022, 12:21 PM EDT (16:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2022, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 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 Mar 30, 6:28 PM EDT, 17 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 6:28 PM EDT, 17 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 3:16 PM EDT, 21 hours 5 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
Mar 31, 10:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield, Newberry, Saluda	25 min
Mar 31, 11:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry, Saluda	30 min
Mar 31, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken, Fairfield, Lexington	30 min
Mar 31, 12:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lancaster	28 min
Mar 31, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland	25 min
Mar 31, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Kershaw	25 min
Mar 31, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	26 min
Mar 31, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	50 min
Mar 31, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Calhoun	29 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2022 Every special weather statement in 2022

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.