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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Columbia, SC

August 1, 2025Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2025, 6:45 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 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, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2025, 7:18 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Fairfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2025-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 986 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2025-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 8:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland24 min
Jul 31, 9:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAESumter67 min
Jul 31, 11:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEClarendon55 min
Aug 1, 1:01 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryCAEAiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield and 8 more19 hr
Aug 1, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEChesterfield52 min
Aug 1, 3:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEChesterfield2 hr
Aug 1, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEKershaw46 min
Aug 1, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield, Lancaster65 min
Aug 1, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEKershaw45 min
Aug 1, 6:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield37 min
Aug 1, 6:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry31 min
Aug 1, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland40 min
Aug 1, 7:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield37 min
Aug 1, 7:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEKershaw, Richland2 hr
Aug 1, 7:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry48 min
Aug 1, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Richland46 min
Aug 1, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield, Saluda39 min
Aug 1, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda41 min
Jul 31, 9:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEColumbia, McDuffie44 min
Jul 31, 9:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEColumbia, Lincoln, McDuffie112 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.