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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Columbia, SC

June 21, 1992Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1992, 5:19 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1992, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Orangeburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1992-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 643 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1992-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEDarlington, Florence65 min
Jun 21, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChester68 min
Jun 21, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield63 min
Jun 21, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter59 min
Jun 21, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw55 min
Jun 21, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon65 min
Jun 21, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFlorence63 min
Jun 21, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw, Lee, Sumter66 min

Nearby

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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.