Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Columbia, SC

October 27, 1995Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:14 PM EDT for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 272212 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC079-272245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
614 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
BETWEEN IRMO AND LEXINGTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS ST.
ANDREWS...AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS
PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN
ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE
AS SOME TORNADOES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
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

Local storm report, Oct 27, 4:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 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, 1 hour 7 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, 46 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, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	62 min
Oct 27, 5:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lexington	26 min
Oct 27, 6:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Richland	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995 Every 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.