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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Columbia, SC

January 14, 1995Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 1995, 2:00 PM EST for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 14, 1995, 2:00 PM EST (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 1995, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Richland County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 434 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 141902 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC079-141945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
200 PM EST SAT JAN 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 2 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHEAST RICHLAND COUNTY JUST WEST OF EASTOVER. THE STORM WILL MOVE
NORTH ACROSS FORT JACKSON AT AROUND 215 PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH
AT 40 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
AMATEUR RADIO AND OTHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THIS
STORM AND RELAY REPORTS PROMPTLY TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL
WEATtHER SERVICE OFFICE.
 
SJN

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

Special weather statement, Jan 14, 11:48 AM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before

SCZ009-014>016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-GAZ040-063>065-
077-141850-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1148 AM EST SAT JAN 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 4 PM EST...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON...

THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTH CAROLINA MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER
AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES. TEMPERATURES WILL CHANGE
LITTLE THIS AFTERNOON.

CTC

Special weather statement, Jan 14, 11:49 AM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes before

GAZ039-061-062-074>076-085>088-SCZ040-141920-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR COUNTY SPELLING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
1145 AM EST SAT JAN 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 4 PM EST FOR ALLENDALE COUNTY OF SOUTH
CAROLINA...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

WEATHER RADAR AT 1125 AM EST INDICATES A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAINFALL ACROSS THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA WITH SOME
EMBEDDED HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING IN BARNWELL AND ALLENDALE COUNTIES OF
SOUTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN BURKE COUNTY OF GEORGIA. THE WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN AUGUSTA HAS RECORDED SLIGHTLY OVER 1 INCH OF RAIN THIS
MORNING /1.10/ WITH OTHER AREAS RECEIVING UPWARDS OF 2 INCHES IN THE
PAST 3 HOURS.

WITH MORE RAIN EXPECTED THROUGH TODAY AND TONIGHT...FLASH FLOODING IS
POSSIBLE IN THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA THROUGH TONIGHT.

REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING
EXISTS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD
MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY. BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

Special weather statement, Jan 14, 11:51 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

SCZ009-014>016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-GAZ040-063>065-
077-141850-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1148 AM EST SAT JAN 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 4 PM EST...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON...

THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTH CAROLINA MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER
AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES. TEMPERATURES WILL CHANGE
LITTLE THIS AFTERNOON.

CTC

Local storm report, Jan 14, 1:33 PM EST, 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
131 PM EST SAT JAN 14 1995

JANUARY 14, 1995    TIMES EST

TIME               REPORT

945 AM             LEXINGTON CO - LARGE TREE BRANCHES DOWN HWY 66 PIN SE
                   LEXINGTON CO NEAR THE RICHLAND CO LINE - EPD

945 AM             LEXINGTON CO - SMALL TREES DOWN AT HWYS 26/176 NEAR
                   RICHLAND CO LINE - EPD

Local storm report, Jan 14, 1:38 PM EST, 22 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
138 PM EST SAT JAN 14 1995

JANUARY 14, 1995    TIMES EST

TIME               REPORT

1003 AM            RICHLAND CO - TREES AND BRANCHES DOWN IN EXTREME
                   WESTERN RICHLAND CO ON HWYS RUNNING N/S ACROSS
                   ACROSS HWY 378 - HWY PATROL

AT HWYS 26/176 NEAR
                   RICHLAND CO LINE - EPD

Local storm report, Jan 14, 1:40 PM EST, 20 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
138 PM EST SAT JAN 14 1995

JANUARY 14, 1995    TIMES EST

TIME               REPORT

1003 AM            RICHLAND CO - TREES AND BRANCHES DOWN IN EXTREMbE
                   WESTERN RICHLAND CO ON HWYS RUNNING N/S ACROSS
                   ACROSS HWY 378 - HWY PATROL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 8:20 AM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Newberry	40 min
Jan 14, 9:16 AM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	29 min
Jan 14, 9:48 AM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Richland	27 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.