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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Columbia, SC

July 6, 1995Aiken County, South Carolina; Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 7:34 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina; Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 062334 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC245-SCC003-070030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
734 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN AIKEN COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM..DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHEAST RICHMOND COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF AUGUSTAS BUSH FIELD AIRPORT.
IT WAS MOVING EAST 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 PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
HAWKS/DELISI

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, 3:52 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
347 PM     DENMARK                   SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   BAMBERG                        BAMBERG COUNTY SHERIFF

Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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

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

Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
430 PM     BOLLENTOWN                SC   1.50 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   ORANGEBURG                     SKYWARN SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
520 PM     ELLOREE                   SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   ORANGEBURG                     HIGHWAY PATROL

1720 PM    ELLOREE                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/06/95   ORANGEBURG                     HIGHWAY PATROL...LIMBS
                                          DOWN.

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
532 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
520 PM     ELLOREE                   SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   ORANGEBURG                     HIGHWAY PATROL

520 PM     ELLOREE                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/06/95   ORANGEBURG                     HIGHWAY PATROL...LIMBS
                                          DOWN.

CDL

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
4 PM       CAMDEN                    SC   0.25 INCH HAIL
07/06/95   KERSHAW                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC

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, 3:22 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.