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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Columbia, SC

January 19, 1995Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1995, 6:35 PM EST for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 1995, 6:35 PM EST (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1995, 7:15 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 409 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
434 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 
WUUS1 KCAE 192335 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC181-200015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
635 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUNTY IN
GEORGIA.
 
AT AT 630 PM EST A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER
WILKES COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 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.

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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.