Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 2:26 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1995, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1995, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kershaw County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 061825 RRA SVRCAE SCC055-061915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 226 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...KERSHAW COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF CAMDEN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES. FOR YOUR PROTECTIpON MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. HAWKS
What 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
Local storm report, Jul 6, 2:11 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
211 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
156 PM 3 SW CAE SC 0.50 INCH HAIL
07/06/95 LEXINGTONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.