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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Columbia, SC

August 3, 2024Aiken County, Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2024, 4:07 PM EDT for Aiken County, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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: Aug 3, 2024, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2024, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Aiken County, SC, Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 3, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 285 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: 855 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:26 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:33 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:34 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:00 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:07 PM EDT, 0 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
Aug 3, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	39 min
Aug 3, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Fairfield	37 min
Aug 3, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Newberry	29 min
Aug 3, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Kershaw	48 min
Aug 3, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick	37 min
Aug 3, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland	38 min
Aug 3, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	39 min
Aug 3, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	49 min
Aug 3, 3:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland	4 hr
Aug 3, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	McCormick	27 min
Aug 3, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	45 min
Aug 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter	45 min
Aug 3, 4:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Richland	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield	46 min
Aug 3, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Kershaw	41 min
Aug 3, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Richland	52 min
Aug 3, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington	47 min
Aug 3, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CAE	Kershaw, Richland	48 min
Aug 3, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee, Richland, Sumter	50 min
Aug 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lee	2 hr
Aug 3, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Sumter	40 min
Aug 3, 7:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	110 min
Aug 3, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Columbia, McDuffie	50 min
Aug 3, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richmond	44 min
Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond	2 hr
Aug 3, 5:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Burke	114 min
Aug 3, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	29 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.