An isolated severe thunderstorm produced some wind damage and hail in McDuffie County.
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An isolated severe thunderstorm produced some wind damage and hail in McDuffie County.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 6:23 PM EST, 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 723 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 .SYNOPSIS... UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING AND SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY. A WEAK SURFACE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION LATE SUNDAY AND SOUTH OF THE AREA BY MONDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BRING INCREASING CHANCES OF RAIN TO THE AREA...HOWEVER TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY COOL SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE FRONT FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... THIS AFTERNOON...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND UPSTATE OF SC/NC/GA. SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY MAY MOVE OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...SO WILL INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA DURING THAT TIME PERIOD. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB INTO THE 90S ACROSS ALL AREAS. SCATTERED CLOUDS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. TONIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP THIS EVENING WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT...WITH THE ACTIVITY DIMINISHING AROUND MIDNIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGH MIDNIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MIDLANDS. CONFIDENCE REMAINS TOO LOW TO INCLUDE POPS FOR ANY AREAS EAST OF THE MIDLANDS. OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE UPPER 60S. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BEGIN SUNDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH BEGINS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE EASTERN US INTO THE WEEK. A SURFACE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON SUNDAY...AND THIS SHOULD MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH THE AREA INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW FAR SOUTH THE FRONT WILL GO BEFORE IT STALLS OUT. EVEN SO...RAIN CHANCES WILL RISE IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT SINCE THE REGION WILL SEE ENHANCED UPLIFT AND INSTABILITY SUNDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. SUNDAY WILL STILL BE WARM THOUGH WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S AGAIN. LOWS SUNDAY NIGHT AROUND 70. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... SURFACE FRONT SHOULD BE ACROSS SOUTHERN AREAS MONDAY MORNING. SLIGHTLY COOLER WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE AREA ON MONDAY...WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S. SLIGHTLY BIGGER COOL DOWN WILL BE ON TUESDAY AS MAIN UPPER LEVEL FLOW REMAINS OUT OF THE NORTHWEST...WHICH WILL BRING THE NOSE OF THE HIGH PRESSURE AREA BEHIND THE FRONT CLOSER TO THE REGION. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY MANY AREAS WILL REMAIN IN THE 80S. AIR MASS WILL MODIFY BY THURSDAY...WHICH WILL BRING WARMER AIR BACK TO THE REGION. ALTHOUGH POPS WILL DIMINISH BEHIND THE FRONT ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY...MUCH OF THE AREA COULD STILL SEE AN ISOLATED AFTERNOON SHOWER OR STORM ON ANY GIVEN DAY FROM WEDNESDAY ONWARD. && .AVIATION /00Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH MOST OF THE TAF PERIOD. WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA INTO SUNDAY. ON SUNDAY...A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL SAG INTO THE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SCTD CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY OVER PORTIONS OF THE AND NORTHERN MIDLANDS WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH THROUGH 02Z. MODEL TIME SECTIONS SHOW AT 20 KT JET OVERNIGHT...THIS WILL HELP KEEP WINDS LIGHT AND VARIABLE OVERNIGHT. GUIDANCE ALSO HINTS AT SOME LIGHT FOG DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...ESPECIALLY AT THE USUAL FOG PRONE AREAS OF OGB/AGS. WILL ADD A TEMPO GROUP FOR FOG AT BOTH SITES. ON SUNDAY...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR SHRA/TSRA...EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY AFTER 18Z. WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF CB AFTER 18Z FOR ALL TAF SITES. EXTENDED AVIATION OUTLOOK...WIDELY/SCATTERED AREAS OF IFR/MVFR CONDITIONS DUE TO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY EVENING. OTHERWISE...JUST SOME PATCHY EARLY MORNING MVFR FOG POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 450 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-120900- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 450 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
WRDW reported several trees down in Thomson.
WRDW reported nickel size hail in Thomson.
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