Tornado Watch issued October 10 at 5:29PM EDT until October 10 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Columbia SC

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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED TORNADO WATCH 679 TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AREAS UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING IN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AIKEN AND NORTH AUGUSTA.

Event time: Oct 10, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC
Source last updated: Oct 10, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC
Current version retrieved: Oct 10, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC
Provider: NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
Location: SC, US
Severity: Extreme
area: Aiken, SC
event: Tornado Watch
onset: 2026-10-10T17:29:00-04:00
states: ["SC"]
urgency: Future
certainty: Possible
effective: 2026-10-10T17:29:00-04:00
message id: urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.16608a48f96cd580dea504436c39eb51c4e76177.001.1
references: []
message type: Alert
freshness minutes: 60

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