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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Columbia, SC

July 6, 1995Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 3:22 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 53 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 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 061921 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC055-062015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
322 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...KERSHAW COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED JUST SOUTH OF CAMDEN AT 320 PM. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN
ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE
AS SOME TORNADOES.
 
ML

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, 1 hour 11 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   LEXINGTON

Local storm report, Jul 6, 2:37 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
237 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
234 PM     CITY OF CAMDEN            SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   KERSHAW                        CITY POLICE

Local storm report, Jul 6, 3:03 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
303 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
303 PM     CITY OF PELION            SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   LEXINGTON                      PELION FIRE DEPT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	49 min
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, 3:39 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, 1995 Every 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.