Some severe storms took down trees and powerlines in the Midlands of South Carolina. Power outages were minimal and fixed quickly.
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The episode as NWS CAE wrote it up.
Some severe storms took down trees and powerlines in the Midlands of South Carolina. Power outages were minimal and fixed quickly.
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 Sep 2, 12:58 PM EST, 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 158 PM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL EXTEND INTO THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE ATLANTIC THROUGH THURSDAY. A PERSISTENT UPPER RIDGE WILL HELP MAINTAIN THE HOT TEMPERATURES. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... CONVECTION HAS ERUPTED ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...JUST EAST OF THE MCV THAT WAS NOTED ON VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY EARLIER TODAY. ALSO ISOLATED STORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF THE PEE DEE NORTHWARD INTO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...BUT MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA REMAINS RAIN FREE AT THE MOMENT. NOTICEABLE LACK OF CONVECTION AND EVEN CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT ACROSS CENTRAL MIDLANDS AND UPPER CSRA LIKELY A RESULT OF MID LEVEL CLOUDS EARLIER LIMITING INSTABILITY AND HOLDING ON TO HIGHER CIN. MESOANALYSIS SHOWS LIFTED INDEX VALUES AS HIGH AS -7C TO -8C IN THE EASTERN MIDLANDS AND LOWER CSRA...WHERE ONGOING CONVECTION RESIDES. TEMPERATURES HAVE CLIMBED INTO THE LOWER TO MID 90S AND EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WEAK FLOW IN THE ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL LEAD TO SLOW STORM MOVEMENT AND PULSE CONVECTION THAT WILL BECOME OUTFLOW DOMINATED. POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS DUE TO PRECIPITATION LOADING AND SLIGHTLY COOLER 500MB TEMPS AROUND -9C. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED FLOODING ALSO POSSIBLE DUE TO TRAINING AND NEARLY STATIONARY STORM MOVEMENT. AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EXPECTED TO DIMINISH WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING THIS EVENING AND POPS DIMINISH AFTER 10PM. SHOULD BE PLENTY OF CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLOUDS OVERNIGHT WHICH WILL LIMIT RADIATIONAL COOLING EARLY. OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT/... THE SURFACE RIDGING EAST AND SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA WILL CONTINUE TO DOMINATE. A WEAKENING FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST SHOULD STALL BEFORE REACHING THE AREA. HOWEVER...STRONG HEATING WITH DEEP MOISTURE PLUS SOME CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH LEE-SIDE TROUGHING SHOULD HELP SUPPORT THUNDERSTORMS. COVERAGE SHOULD BE LIMITED BECAUSE OF CONTINUED UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING AND SLOW STORM MOVEMENT. THE GUIDANCE CONSENSUS SUPPORTS POPS AROUND 30 PERCENT. HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS BECAUSE OF SLOW STORM MOVEMENT AND PRECIPITABLE WATER NEAR 2 INCHES. RECENT VERIFICATION FAVORS THE WARMER TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... THE GFS AND ECMWF SHOW RIDGING EXTENDING INTO THE AREA FROM THE ATLANTIC DOMINATING EARLY IN THE MEDIUM-RANGE PERIOD. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE COMBINED WITH HEATING SHOULD SUPPORT SCATTERED MAINLY DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS. THE MODELS DISPLAY A COLD FRONT IN THE AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY SUPPORTING AN INCREASED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE GFS...ECMWF...AND EKD MOS HAVE POPS 20 TO 30 PERCENT EARLY INCREASING TO 30 TO 40 PERCENT BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES SHOULD LOWER TO NEAR NORMAL TOWARD THE END OF THE PERIOD BECAUSE OF INCREASED CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT. && .AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT UNDERWAY WITH TEMPERATURES PUSHING INTO THE MID 90S AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE. BULK OF THE CONVECTION SHOULD REMAIN EAST OF THE TERMINALS BUT OGB MAY BE IMPACTED AND WILL CARRY TEMPO TSRA 19Z-22Z TIME FRAME AND AMEND AS NEEDED AT OTHER TERMINALS. DEBRIS CLOUDS LIKELY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING INTO OVERNIGHT SHOULD INHIBIT FOG DEVELOPMENT BUT CANNOT RULE OUT SOME MVFR VSBYS AT OGB/AGS...ESPECIALLY IF RAINFALL IS OBSERVED. SOUTHERLY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE TO CALM OVERNIGHT BEFORE PICKING BACK UP AFTER 15Z WEDNESDAY. EXTENDED AVIATION OUTLOOK...RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE IN LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING STRATUS AND FOG. SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 325 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-030730- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 325 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD POSSIBLY CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
834 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014
...TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
...DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0646 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 ESE WOODFIELDS 34.05N 80.91W
09/01/2014 RICHLAND SC OTHER FEDERAL
FORT JACKSON REPORTED TWO TREES DOWN ALONG
WITH SEVERAL POWER OUTAGES.
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LCVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1015 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014
...TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
...DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0526 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 WSW NEW ELLENTON 33.41N 81.72W
08/31/2014 AIKEN SC UTILITY COMPANY
AIKEN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE REPORTED POWER
OUTAGES DUE TO TREES ON POWER LINE.
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LCVThe Columbia radar (KCAE), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:28 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff dispatch reported that officers observed dime size hail near the town of Cheraw.
Cheraw State Park Golf Course reported several trees down along with dime size hail.
SC Highway Patrol reported trees down on Storm Branch Road at Boyd Pond Road.
Public reported via facebook that quarter size hail fell on Hwy 278 west of New Ellenton.
DOT reported a tree down at Potter Road and Pink Plyer Road, and another tree down near SC Hwy 9 and Hwy 522.
Chesterfield County Dispatch reported trees down on Hwy 1 near the National Guard Armory.
SC Highway Patrol reported trees down at Jacobs Millpond Road and Sandy Oaks Road.
SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down on I-20 at mile marker 83 east bound.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, September 2014
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 532173, 532175, 532176, 532174, 532177, 532178, 532179, 532181.