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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2025, 8:23 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 112 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 1, 2025, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2025, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 8:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Richland | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 9:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell | 39 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.