An isolated thunderstorm in Burke County took down a rotten tree on a home and did minor damage to the roof.
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An isolated thunderstorm in Burke County took down a rotten tree on a home and did minor damage to the roof.
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 May 4, 4:20 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 520 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD PROVIDING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FRONT WILL COME THROUGH SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...PROVIDING AN INCREASED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE FRONT WILL SLOWLY PUSH TO OUR SOUTH AND WEST SUNDAY. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MID WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /TONIGHT/... THE THREAT FOR PRECIPITATION WILL END THIS EVENING AS WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. DO NOT SEE MUCH IN THE WAY OF FOG FORMATION OVERNIGHT AS SFC WINDS STAY UP JUST A BIT WITH A 20-25 KT NOCTURNAL JET. LOWS TONIGHT WILL FALL ONLY INTO THE MIDDLE 60S. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... ON SATURDAY WITH MID/UPPER FLOW NOW FROM THE NORTHWEST...ANOTHER UPPER DISTURBANCE ALONG WITH A SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION. MODELS DIFFERING ON SPEED OF THIS SYSTEM WITH THE NAM BEING THE FASTEST AND THE ECMWF BEING THE SLOWEST. BY SUNDAY...THESE FEATURES WILL HAVE MOVED MAINLY SOUTH OF THE CWA AS SURFACE WINDS COME AROUND TO THE NORTH/NORTHEAST. WILL CONTINUE WITH A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON/EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD. ALTHOUGH WILL LOWER POPS A BIT BY SUNDAY WITH SYSTEM/BOUNDARY ACROSS THE CSRA/SOUTH OF THE CWA. SPC DAY 3 HAS REMOVED THE MENTION OF SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE...BUT DO HAVE AN AREA OF SEE TEXT JUST TO OUR WEST ACROSS AL/GA. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN MUCH ABOVE NORMAL ON SATURDAY...BUT WITH DISTURBANCE/SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTH OF THE REGION ON SUNDAY TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE LOWER/MIDDLE 80S BY SUNDAY. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE CLOSE TO A CONSENSUS OF THE GUIDANCE. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... A CHANGE IN THE ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES LOOKS IN STORE FOR THE AREA DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD AS TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO MORE NORMAL READINGS. AT THE SURFACE...MODELS INDICATE THAT THE BOUNDARY WILL BE SOUTH OF THE REGION ON MONDAY AS SURFACE WINDS WILL BE FROM THE NORTHEAST/EAST. BY MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...FRONT WILL BEGIN MOVING BACK NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT. BOTH GFS/ECMWF SHOW THIS TREND...HOWEVER THE GFS IS THE FASTER OF THE TWO MODELS. BY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH AND MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. MODEL DIFFERENCES REALLY BEGIN TO SHOW BY TUESDAY WITH SPEED OF NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHING FOR WED/THU. GFS HAS SYSTEM THROUGH THE AREA AND OFF THE COAST BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE ECMWF IS MUCH DEEPER WITH UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND DOES NOT PUSH FRONT ACROSS THE CWA UNTIL THURSDAY AND BEYOND. WITH FRONT IN THE AREA FOR MONDAY AND MOVING NORTHWARD HAS A WARM FRONT INTO TUESDAY...THEN SYSTEM APPROACHING FOR WED/THU. WILL KEEP A MENTION OF SLIGHT CHANCE/CHANCE POPS INTO THU...BY DRY FRI AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. AT THIS TIME...BEST CHANCE APPEARS TO BE TUE/TUESDAY NIGHT. OVERALL LEANED CLOSER TO HPC GUIDANCE WITH TIMING OF FRONTS AND TEMP FORECASTS. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO COOL DOWN WITH INCREASED CLOUD COVER AND CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION...TEMPERATURES SHOULD MAINLY RANGE BETWEEN 80 AND 85 DEGREES THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE MIDDLE 50S TO MIDDLE 60S. && .AVIATION /21Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... MAINLY VFR FORECAST THROUGH THE EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING. COVERAGE AND CONFIDENCE NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO MENTION SHOWERS/TSTMS IN TAFS AT THIS TIME. CONVECTION WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. SHOULD SEE MVFR FOG AT KAGS/KOGB 09Z-13Z SATURDAY. SCATTERED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP SATURDAY AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. EXTENDED AVIATION OUTLOOK SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...CONVECTION POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && .EQUIPMENT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN COLUMBIA SC WILL BE OUT OF SERVICE THIS WEEK TO UPGRADE TO DUAL POLARIZATION TECHNOLOGY. PLEASE REFER TO NEIGHBORING RADARS FOR COVERAGE. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 450 AM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-050850- AIKEN-BAMBERG-BARNWELL-BURKE-CALHOUN-CHESTERFIELD-CLARENDON-COLUMBIA- EDGEFIELD-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-LANCASTER-LEE-LEXINGTON-LINCOLN-MCCORMICK- MCDUFFIE-NEWBERRY-ORANGEBURG-RICHLAND-RICHMOND-SALUDA-SUMTER- 450 AM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:30 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Fire chief reported a rotten tree toppled a tree onto a home causing minor damage to the roof.
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