Special Weather Statement
NWS Columbia SC ยท US
Details
A Strong Thunderstorm Will Impact Portions Of Central Fairfield, Southwestern Lancaster, North Central Richland And Western Kershaw Counties Through 815 PM EDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 732 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Lake Wateree State Park, or near Springdale, moving south at 20 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Winnsboro, Lake Wateree Dam, Kershaw, Lugoff, Fairfield County Airport, Lake Carolina, Longtown, Liberty Hill, Elgin, Lake Wateree State Park, Blythewood, Ridgeway, Mitford, Fairfield County Detention Center, Rion, Winnsboro Mills, Pine Grove Fire Station, Fairfield Elementary School, Smallwood, and White Oak. This includes the following highways... Interstate 20 in South Carolina between mile markers 87 and 91. Interstate 77 between mile markers 25 and 50.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Affected areas
- Fairfield County, SC
- Kershaw County, SC
- Richland County, SC
- Southern Lancaster
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Columbia SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~30s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2VDWC85Y3728NRY9JR8Y1ZZ
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.9a70a3b369a61c7e70cdb7d4aa129241e5fd3959.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Columbia SC
- AWIPS ID
- CAPCAE
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.9362
- WMO heading
- XOUS52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSCAE |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS82 KCAE 182333 |
| NWSheadline | A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Fairfield, southwestern Lancaster, north central Richland and western Kershaw Counties through 815 PM EDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-18T23:32:00-00:00...storm...012DEG...17KT...34.39,-80.91 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.25 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Fairfield County, SC
- Kershaw County, SC
- Richland County, SC
- Southern Lancaster
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 045039 |
| SAME | 045055 |
| SAME | 045079 |
| SAME | 045057 |
| UGC | SCZ021 |
| UGC | SCZ022 |
| UGC | SCZ028 |
| UGC | SCZ116 |
- Polygons
- 34.54,-80.59 34.13,-80.71 34.22,-81.25 34.55,-81.09 34.54,-80.88 34.56,-80.87 34.54,-80.59