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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Columbia, SC

July 6, 1995Bamberg County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 3:39 PM EDT for Bamberg County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bamberg County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1586 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 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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 061939 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC009-075-062045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
339 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BAMBERG COUNTY...SOUTHERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY
 
AT 335 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INTENSIFYING JUST EAST OF
BLACKVILLE AT THE BORDER OF BARNWELL AND BAMBERG COUNTIES. THE
STORM WILL MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...PASSING NEAR BAMBERG...
AND BRANCHVILLE AND ROWESVILLE IN SOUTHERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
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 28 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, 1 hour 2 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, 36 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.
Local storm report, Jul 6, 3:37 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
337 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
330 PM     EAST COLUMBIA             SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   RICHLAND                       POSTAL OFFICALS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw49 min
Jul 6, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington68 min
Jul 6, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland65 min
Jul 6, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw53 min
Jul 6, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield57 min
Jul 6, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter59 min
Jul 6, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon66 min
Jul 6, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken56 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.