Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2026, 4:58 PM EDT for Kershaw County, Lee County, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 11, 2026, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 3185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 34 min |
| Sep 11, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Orangeburg | 32 min |
| Sep 11, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Clarendon | 25 min |
| Sep 11, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken, Calhoun | 40 min |
| Sep 11, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken | 29 min |
| Sep 11, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Kershaw | 27 min |
| Sep 11, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Lee | 25 min |
| Sep 11, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee | 52 min |
| Sep 11, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken | 30 min |
| Sep 11, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Richland, Sumter | 46 min |
| Sep 11, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Aiken | 23 min |
| Sep 11, 6:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Richland | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 39 min |
| Sep 11, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland | 46 min |
| Sep 11, 7:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAE | Aiken, Edgefield, Saluda | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Newberry | 27 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.