NWS Columbia SCSV.W 0150September 5, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee and 2 more, SC
The National Weather Service office in Columbia issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee and 2 more in South Carolina, which was in force until 5:15 p.m. local time on September 5. It was the 150th 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 48 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, Lee and 2 more
- State
- South Carolina
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 4:27 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- Expires
- 5:15 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KCAE SV.W 0150
- 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... East central Fairfield County in central South Carolina... Southwestern Lee County in central South Carolina... Northwestern Sumter County in central South Carolina... Northeastern Richland County in central South Carolina... Southwestern Kershaw County in central South Carolina... * Until 515 PM EDT. * At 427 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Longtown to near Bishopville, moving south at 10 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines. * Locations impacted include... Columbia, Camden, Bishopville, Lake Wateree Dam, Dentsville, Lugoff, Villages at Sandhill, Elgin, Killian, Sesquicentennial State Park, Lake Carolina, Goodale State Park, Mayesville, Dinkins Mill, Manville, Spring Hill, North Towne Square Shopping Center, Boykin, Pine Grove Fire Station, and Wateree River Correctional Institution. This includes the following highways... Interstate 20 in South Carolina between mile markers 78 and 118. Interstate 77 between mile markers 18 and 20.
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