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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Columbia, SC

July 24, 1995Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 2:41 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1995, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 2044 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 11:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun	66 min
Jul 24, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	53 min
Jul 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	60 min
Jul 24, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	55 min
Jul 24, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Orangeburg	55 min
Jul 24, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	55 min
Jul 24, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	25 min
Jul 24, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	60 min
Jul 24, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke, Richmond	69 min

Nearby

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.