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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Columbia, SC

February 3, 1995Aiken County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 1995, 11:55 PM EST for Aiken County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 3, 1995, 11:55 PM EST (04:55 UTC)
Expired
Feb 4, 1995, 12:45 AM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Aiken County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 305 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 00:00Z on 1995-02-04Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1995-02-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 4, 12:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington38 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.