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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Columbia, SC

July 24, 1995Burke County, Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 7:36 PM EDT for Burke County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1995, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Burke County, GA, Richmond County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 242338 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC033-245-250045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
736 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BURKE COUNTY...RICHMOND COUNTY
 
AT 735 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER SOUTH CENTRAL RICHMOND COUNTY NEAR HEPHZIBAH. THE STORM WAS MOVING
TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH TOWARD WAYNESBORO.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE
MOBILE HOMES.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
SJN

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 24, 5:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
537 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
535 PM     HIGHWAY 176 AND I-95      SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/95   ORANGEBURG                     TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          ORANGEBURG COUNTY SHERIFF.

RCC

Local storm report, Jul 24, 6:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
605 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
555 PM     JACKSON                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/95   AIKEN                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY THE
                                          AIKEN COUNTY SHERIFF.

RCC

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 6:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
605 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
555 PM     JACKSON                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/95   AIKEN                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY THE
                                          AIKEN COUNTY SHERIFF.

RCC

WWUS30KTUL0T

Local storm report, Jul 24, 6:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
625 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
615 PM     SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT      SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/95   BARNWELL                       NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN SW
                                          BARNWELL COUNTY. REPORTED
                                          BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
                                          ENERGY

RCC

Local storm report, Jul 24, 6:50 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
650 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
650 PM     BARNWELL                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/95   BARNWELL                       TREES DOWN IN BARNWELL.
                                          REPORTED BY BARNWELL
                                          COUNTY SHERIFF.

RCC

Local storm report, Jul 24, 7:32 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
732 PM EDT MON JUL 24 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
500 PM     1 N SOCIETY HILL          SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/95   CHESTERFIELD                   TREES DOWN 1 MILE NORTH OF
                                          SOCIETY HILL. REPORTED BY
                                          THE PD ELECTRIC
                                          COOPERATIVE OBSERVER.

RCC

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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.