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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Columbia, SC

March 19, 1992Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 3:24 PM EST for Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 1992, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 1992, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 192026
SVRCAE
SCC063-079-192130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
324 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...LEXINGTON COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN PROGRESS AT COLUMBIA METRO
AIRPORT WHERE IT PRODUCED 69 MPH WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD
THE EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL ENTER RICHLAND COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30
MINUTES.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONAL9LY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, 2:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	59 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, 3:29 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

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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.