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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Columbia, SC

July 16, 1995Chesterfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 6:28 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Chesterfield County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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 162232 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC025-162330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
628 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CHESTERFIELD COUNTY
 
AT 627 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST CHESTERFIELD COUNTY ABOUT 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF PAGELAND. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AND
WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF PAGELAND AND JEFFERSON DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster, York	68 min
Jul 16, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	48 min
Jul 16, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chester, Fairfield	66 min
Jul 16, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	67 min
Jul 16, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	51 min
Jul 16, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	68 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.