Summer is only days old and a heat advisory has been issued for the Columbia area of South Carolina. But triple-digit temperatures are not the only severe weather effects forecast to impact the Midlands.
Powerful thunderstorms with damaging winds could lash the area Wednesday as it continues to slog through the extreme heat, National Weather Service meteorologists said in a Tuesday morning briefing.
Dangerous heat is the primary threat in Columbia on Tuesday, when temperatures could reach a high of 100 degrees and heat index values could peak at 110, according to the briefing.
The heat advisory, which includes all of the Midlands, will begin at 1 p.m. and is scheduled to remain in effect through 8 p.m., according to the National Weather Service…