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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Columbia, SC

July 6, 20264 counties in South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2026, 10:23 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 52 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 6, 2026, 10:23 PM EDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2026, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Chesterfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2026-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3441 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2026-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
3441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 6, 8:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington43 min
Jul 6, 8:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEOrangeburg49 min
Jul 6, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Sumter45 min
Jul 6, 8:30 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAEOrangeburg2 hr
Jul 6, 8:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun, Richland42 min
Jul 6, 8:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELexington, Newberry, Saluda56 min
Jul 6, 9:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEOrangeburg59 min
Jul 6, 9:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAECalhoun, Fairfield, Richland, Sumter63 min
Jul 6, 9:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAENewberry61 min
Jul 6, 9:50 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAECalhoun, Orangeburg115 min
Jul 6, 9:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEKershaw, Lee, Sumter67 min
Jul 6, 10:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAERichland118 min
Jul 6, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEFairfield, Lancaster65 min
Jul 7, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAELee49 min
Jul 7, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAEChesterfield48 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.