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Lake Wind Advisory 8, NWS Columbia, SC

March 16, 202618 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Mar 16, 2026, 12:27 AM EDT for 18 counties in South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 16, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2026, 12:27 AM EDT (04:27 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 17, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC

All 23 counties

Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon 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, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 293 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 lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Mar 15, 7:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 7:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 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
Mar 16, 12:27 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more	24 hr
Mar 16, 12:27 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Edgefield and 9 more	34 hr
Mar 16, 7:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick	66 min
Mar 16, 8:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, Fairfield, McCormick, Newberry, Saluda	62 min
Mar 16, 8:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	66 min
Mar 16, 9:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick	60 min
Mar 16, 9:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Lancaster	38 min
Mar 16, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter	45 min
Mar 16, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Bamberg, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Orangeburg and 2 more	65 min
Mar 16, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Chesterfield, Clarendon, Lee, Sumter	50 min

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2026 Lake Wind Advisories in Georgia, 2026 Every lake wind advisory 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.