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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Columbia, SC

July 16, 1995Richmond County, Georgia; Aiken County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 7:23 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia; Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 67 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, 11.4 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: 1173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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 162326 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC245-SCC003-170030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
723 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 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
 
   ...RICHMOND COUNTY
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WESTERN AIKEN COUNTY
 
AT 722 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN AIKEN COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF NEW ELLENTON
AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN RICHMOND COUNTY JUST WEST
OF HEPZIBAH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH AT 10 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.

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 16, 7:12 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
712 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
632 PM     THROUGHOUT COUNTY         SC   POWER LINES DOWN
07/16/95   YORK COUNTY                    YORK EOC REPORTS POWER
                                          LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          COUNTY.

646 PM     PAGELAND                  SC   LARGE LIMBS DOWN
07/16/95   CHESTERFIELD                   PAGELAND POLICE DEPT.

CTC

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, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	62 min
Jul 16, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chester, Fairfield	66 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 Georgia, 1995 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.