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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Columbia, SC

September 5, 20265 counties in South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 5:19 PM EDT for 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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: Sep 5, 2026, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 5, 1:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 257 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: 1622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 5, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 5, 5:03 PM EDT, 16 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
Sep 5, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster	46 min
Sep 5, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter	48 min
Sep 5, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda	53 min
Sep 5, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Richland and 1 more	52 min
Sep 5, 5:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington, Richland, Sumter	79 min
Sep 5, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield, Lexington	45 min
Sep 5, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	42 min
Sep 5, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	44 min
Sep 5, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg	43 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.