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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Columbia, SC

October 27, 1995Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:28 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 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 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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: 653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -125 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 272127 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC063-272230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
528 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...LEXINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RIDGE
SPRINGS...IN SOUTHERN SALUDA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH AND WILL REACH BATESBURG NEAR 550 PM...AND GILBERT BY 615 PM.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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.
 
AWP
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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 54 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 52 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, 34 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

CDL

Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:07 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
507 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
457 PM     TRENTON POST OFFICE       SC   .75 INCH HAIL
10/27/95   EDGEFIELD

CDL

Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:28 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
528 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
530 PM     RIDGE SPRINGS             SC   .75 INCH HAIL
10/27/95   SALUDA                         CITY POLICE

CDL

The 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, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	27 min
Oct 27, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	37 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.