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Special Weather Statement, NWS Columbia, SC

August 4, 2026Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2026, 8:09 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2026, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2026, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 8:09 PM EDT, 0 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
Aug 4, 8:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Richland	2 hr
Aug 4, 8:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Richland	2 hr
Aug 4, 9:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Fairfield	2 hr
Aug 4, 10:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Kershaw, Lancaster	114 min
Aug 5, 8:06 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAE	Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 12 more	74 min
Aug 5, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Saluda	32 min
Aug 5, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	31 min
Aug 5, 3:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAE	Lexington	2 hr
Aug 5, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Lexington	47 min
Aug 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Lexington, Richland	45 min
Aug 5, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Kershaw	52 min
Aug 5, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAE	Richland	46 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.