Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:03 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1995, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 272100 RRA SVRCAE SCC057-272130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 503 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY AT 501 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE 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...POW"ER 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, 5 hours 29 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, 5 hours 27 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
Local storm report, Oct 27, 4:54 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
454 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
442 PM 5 SW APPLING GA .75 INCH HAIL
10/27/95 COLUMBIA
CDLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 25 min |
| Oct 27, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 37 min |
| Oct 27, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 62 min |
| Oct 27, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 26 min |
| Oct 27, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 6:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.