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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Columbia, SC

July 26, 1995Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 5:47 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Richland County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 341 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1193 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
1193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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
Jul 26, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcCormick68 min
Jul 26, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield, Saluda62 min
Jul 26, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington63 min
Jul 26, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland66 min
Jul 26, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken63 min
Jul 26, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington52 min
Jul 26, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBarnwell, Orangeburg62 min
Jul 26, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun62 min

Nearby

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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.