Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 2:46 PM EST for Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1992, 2:46 PM EST (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saluda County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCAE 191948
SVRCAE
SCC081-192045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
246 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
...SALUDA COUNTY
AT 245 PM EST RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SALUDA
COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF SALUDA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST
ABOUT 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SALUDA AND WESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY
DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
LOWEWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 12:39 PM EST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SCZ003-004-191845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1245 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA TIL 4 PM EST...INCLUDING NEWBERRY AND SALUDIA COUNTIES... AT 1230 PM EST THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PIEDMONTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE PIEDMONTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 1:41 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SCZ003-004-005-006-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 140 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE FOOTHILLS...PIEDMONTS ...MIDLANDS...AND PARTS O
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry, Saluda | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 68 min |
| Mar 19, 2:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 2:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 59 min |
| Mar 19, 2:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Sumter | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 59 min |
| Mar 19, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 3:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Darlington, Florence | 69 min |
| Mar 19, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 69 min |
| Mar 19, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Orangeburg, Sumter | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 3:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Marlboro | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.