Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 7:17 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fairfield County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chester | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.