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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Columbia, SC

May 1, 1994Florence County, Lee County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1994, 4:33 PM EDT for Florence County, Lee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 1994, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Florence County, SC, Lee County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 215 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEOrangeburg47 min
May 1, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEDillon48 min
May 1, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMarlboro58 min
May 1, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEOrangeburg57 min
May 1, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEDillon59 min
May 1, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Clarendon65 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.