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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2023, 1:45 AM EDT for Columbia County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 8, 2023, 1:45 AM EDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2023, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Columbia County, GA, McDuffie County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Aug 7, 7:51 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:51 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Columbia SC 444 PM EDT Mon Aug 7 2023 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ016-018-020>022-025>031-035-037-038-041-115- 116-135>137-082045- Lincoln-McDuffie-Columbia-Richmond-Burke-Chesterfield-McCormick- Newberry-Fairfield-Kershaw-Edgefield-Saluda-Lexington-Richland-Lee- Aiken-Sumter-Barnwell-Calhoun-Clarendon-Bamberg-Northern Lancaster- Southern Lancaster-Northwestern Orangeburg-Central Orangeburg- Southeastern Orangeburg- 444 PM EDT Mon Aug 7 2023 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 607 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Midlands of South Carolina and the Central Savannah River area of Georgia. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Heat Advisory. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 7, 7:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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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.