Alert archive / South Carolina / Lancaster County

Weather alerts in Lancaster County, South Carolina, 2021

89 weather alerts in 2021, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lancaster County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
89
Warnings
16
Watches
9
Advisories
37
Busiest month
March17 alerts
Busiest day
March 18, 20216 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Lancaster County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10550%838%18 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Columbia, SC: tornado warnings17571%1587%10 min
NWS Columbia, SC: severe thunderstorm warnings805038%15676%16 min
NWS Columbia, SC: flash flood warnings6350%1182%32 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 31, 10:10 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE10 hr
Jan 1, 3:35 PM ESTFlash Flood WatchCAE34 hr
Jan 2, 5:10 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE6 hr
Jan 13, 3:25 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE9 hr
Jan 15, 12:41 PM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE29 hr
Jan 15, 9:18 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE7 hr
Jan 25, 4:13 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE12 hr
Jan 26, 6:40 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE10 hr
Jan 28, 12:53 AM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE11 hr
Feb 11, 3:18 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE8 hr
Feb 16, 10:31 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningCAE9 days
Feb 17, 2:01 PM ESTFlash Flood WatchCAE41 hr
Feb 17, 3:07 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCAE13 hr
Feb 22, 8:43 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE3 hr
Mar 18, 2:08 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC4 hr
Mar 18, 3:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Mar 18, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE29 min
Mar 18, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE36 min
Mar 18, 5:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Mar 18, 7:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE32 min
Mar 25, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE42 min
Mar 25, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE47 min
Mar 26, 5:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE29 min
Mar 26, 1:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Mar 27, 6:32 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE3 hr
Mar 27, 2:40 PM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE36 hr
Mar 28, 9:39 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCAE6 days
Mar 28, 12:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Mar 28, 1:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE55 min
Mar 31, 2:11 PM EDTFreeze WatchCAE13 hr
Mar 31, 2:22 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Apr 1, 3:02 AM EDTFreeze WarningCAE30 hr
Apr 2, 9:05 AM EDTFreeze WarningCAE24 hr
Apr 3, 2:36 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryCAE17 hr
Apr 10, 5:35 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Apr 20, 2:02 PM EDTFire Weather WatchCAE12 hr
Apr 21, 1:17 AM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE31 hr
Apr 21, 1:37 AM EDTRed Flag WarningCAE18 hr
Apr 21, 2:25 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryCAE18 hr
Apr 22, 2:19 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryCAE18 hr
May 3, 1:25 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 4, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE36 min
May 4, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE59 min
May 4, 4:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
May 4, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE53 min
May 4, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE57 min
May 7, 3:09 AM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE17 hr
May 9, 4:08 AM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE15 hr
May 29, 12:37 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Jun 7, 6:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAE118 min
Jun 14, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE38 min
Jun 14, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE45 min
Jun 14, 9:04 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAE77 min
Jun 15, 12:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 19, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE44 min
Jun 20, 2:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchCAE17 hr
Jun 20, 5:10 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAE3 hr
Jun 20, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE55 min
Jun 20, 6:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAE3 hr
Jul 1, 6:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE62 min
Jul 9, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE27 min
Jul 28, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE25 min
Jul 28, 7:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE36 min
Jul 28, 8:05 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAE115 min
Aug 11, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE34 min
Aug 12, 7:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE26 min
Aug 14, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE28 min
Aug 17, 5:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Aug 17, 6:28 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC10 hr
Aug 21, 9:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSP27 min
Aug 23, 3:45 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE5 hr
Aug 31, 5:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAE38 min
Sep 8, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE50 min
Sep 8, 4:36 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCAE114 min
Sep 15, 7:39 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE81 min
Sep 22, 2:44 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Oct 16, 4:06 AM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE28 hr
Nov 4, 3:50 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryCAE29 hr
Nov 5, 2:27 PM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE45 hr
Nov 7, 10:18 PM ESTFrost AdvisoryCAE11 hr
Nov 13, 3:40 AM ESTFreeze WatchCAE7 hr
Nov 13, 10:44 AM ESTFreeze WarningCAE21 hr
Nov 22, 4:20 PM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE15 hr
Dec 8, 10:10 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE11 hr
Dec 10, 7:35 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE13 hr
Dec 11, 5:12 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCAE48 min
Dec 17, 9:36 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE12 hr
Dec 24, 8:18 PM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryCAE23 hr
Dec 27, 3:29 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryCAE7 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.