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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Columbia, SC

July 5, 2026Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2026, 5:56 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
Jul 5, 2026, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Fairfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 332 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2026-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1885 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2026-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1885 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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
Jul 4, 11:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry41 min
Jul 5, 12:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAESaluda41 min
Jul 5, 12:20 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry25 min
Jul 5, 1:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEChesterfield43 min
Jul 5, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAESumter35 min
Jul 5, 2:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun27 min
Jul 5, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAESumter29 min
Jul 5, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEClarendon45 min
Jul 5, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon, Sumter43 min
Jul 5, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun, Orangeburg43 min
Jul 5, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Richland45 min
Jul 5, 4:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland26 min
Jul 5, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun42 min
Jul 5, 5:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAERichland39 min
Jul 5, 5:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield27 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield50 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.