NWS Columbia SCSV.W 0149September 5, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Fairfield, Kershaw and Lancaster, SC
The National Weather Service office in Columbia issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Fairfield, Kershaw and Lancaster in South Carolina, which was in force until 5:00 p.m. local time on September 5. It was the 149th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Columbia issued in 2026. South Carolina had 59 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 19 in an average September of 2008-2025 (South Carolina's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 46 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Columbia SC
- Area
- Fairfield, Kershaw and Lancaster
- State
- South Carolina
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 4:14 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- Expires
- 5:00 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KCAE SV.W 0149
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina since 2008Every warning type in South Carolina
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The notice as issued
SVRCAE The National Weather Service in Columbia has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Fairfield County in central South Carolina... Southwestern Lancaster County in central South Carolina... Northwestern Kershaw County in central South Carolina... * Until 500 PM EDT. * At 413 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Richburg, or 7 miles east of Chester, moving south at 40 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines. * Locations impacted include... Winnsboro, Fairfield County Airport, Monticello, Longtown, Liberty Hill, Lake Wateree State Park, Irwin, Ridgeway, Lebanon Fire Station, Bell Town Fire Station, Mitford, Fairfield County Detention Center, Faith Christian School, Rion, Winnsboro Mills, Fairfield Elementary School, Feasterville Fire Station, White Oak, McWhirter Airfield, and Lake Wateree near Highway 97. This includes Interstate 77 between mile markers 33 and 50.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina since 2008501 a year
- Every warning type in South Carolina
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels