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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Columbia, SC

October 27, 1995Columbia County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 4:21 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 272019 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC073-272100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
421 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
AT 420 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL COLUMBIA COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL.
 
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.

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, Oct 27, 11:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
SCZ009-014>016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-GAZ040-063>065-
077-280340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1136 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH
RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVES EAST TOWARDS THE CAROLINAS
AND GEORGIA FROM THE MIDWEST. WARM...MOIST...AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE
AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE SYSTEMS WILL TRIGGER NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS...AND SOME TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

RESIDENTS OF THE MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA
SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND KEEP
POSTED ON STjATEMENTS...WATCHES...OR WARNINGS WHICH MAY BE ISSUED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

AWP
Special weather statement, Oct 27, 11:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
SCZ009-014>016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-GAZ040-063>065-
077-280340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1136 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH
RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVES EAST TOWARDS THE CAROLINAS
AND GEORGIA FROM THE MIDWEST. WARM...MOIST...AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE
AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE SYSTEMS WILL TRIGGER NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS...AND SOME TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

RESIDENTS OF THE MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA
SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND KEEP
POSTED ON STATEMENTS...WATCHES...OR WARNINGS WHICH MAY BE ISSUED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

AWP

Nearby

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.