Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 8:39 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1995, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burke County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 170042 RRA SVRCAE GAC033-170130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 839 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...EASTERN BURKE COUNTY AT 838 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE SAVANNAH MOVING SOUTH INTO EASTERN BURKE COUNTY. THE TOWN OF GIRARD IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS SOME TORNADO"ES. CTC
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 27 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.
CTCLocal storm report, Jul 16, 8:26 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
826 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
742 PM HEPZIAH GA TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
07/16/95 S.RICHMOND CO. EOC REPORTS NUMEROUS
TREES/POWER LINES DOWN IN
S.RICHMOND CO NEAR
HEPZIAH.
752 PM BEECH ISLAND SC TREES DOWN
07/16/95 W. AIKEN COUNTY EOC REPORTS TREES DOWN
NEAR BEECH ISLAND
810 PM CHAPIN SC POWER LINES DOWN
07/16/95 LEXINGTON REPORT BY SHERIFF...POWER
LINES DOWN IN CHAPIN AREA.
812 PM CHAPIN TO BLYTHEWOOD SC TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
07/16/95 N.W. RICHLAND EOC REPORTS NUMEROUS
TREES/POWER LINES DOWN IN
NW RICHLAND COUNTY FROM
CHAPIN TO BLYTHEWOOD SOUTH
TO I-20.
CTCNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.