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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC

January 23, 202614 counties in South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this ice storm warning at Jan 23, 2026, 9:22 AM EST for 14 counties in South Carolina; 4 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 24, 2026, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 39 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 23, 2026, 9:22 AM EST (14:22 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 26, 2026, 4:00 AM EST
In force
39 hr
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC

Counties Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 270 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2026-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2026-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
334 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
Jan 23, 12:57 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCAEBamberg, Barnwell, Clarendon, Orangeburg63 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in South Carolina, 2026Ice Storm Warnings in Georgia, 2026Every ice storm warning in 2026

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.