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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2025, 6:36 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 28, 2025, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2025, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Calhoun County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 333 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lancaster | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw | 29 min |
| Jul 27, 9:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Chesterfield, Lancaster | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 50 min |
| Jul 28, 12:47 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more | 43 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Edgefield | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick | 40 min |
| Jul 28, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Barnwell | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 35 min |
| Jul 28, 6:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Richland | 94 min |
| Jul 28, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Burke | 24 min |
| Jul 28, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Burke | 36 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.