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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2026, 5:33 PM EDT for Barnwell County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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 13, 2026, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barnwell County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 1:33 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more | 5 days |
| Aug 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lexington | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lancaster | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | McCormick | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 24 min |
| Aug 13, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Richland | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 7:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Richland | 86 min |
| Aug 13, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Burke | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Burke | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.