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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Columbia, SC

July 16, 1995Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 8:21 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Richland County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1908 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
1908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

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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, 1 hour 9 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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEOrangeburg41 min
Jul 16, 9:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg41 min
Jul 16, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Every 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.