Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 1995, 4:14 PM EST for Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 1995, 4:14 PM EST (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 1995, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 46 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 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Nov 2, 3:55 PM EST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
355 PM EST THU NOV 02 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
340 PM GASTON SC TORNADO
11/02/95 LEXINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ALONG
MEADOWFIELD ROAD.NO DAMAGE
REPORTED.
BCLocal storm report, Nov 2, 4:05 PM EST, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
405 PM EST THU NOV 02 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
402 PM CALHOUN COUNTY SC TORNADO
11/02/95 CALHOUN FROM EMERG MGMT OFFICE.
TORNADO TOUCH DOWN
INTERSEC HIWAY 31 AND
I-26. HOME DESTROYED.
BLPLocal storm report, Nov 2, 4:10 PM EST, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
410 PM EST THU NOV 02 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
256 PM AIKEN STATE PARK RD. SC WIND DAMAGE
11/02/95 AIKEN FROM AIKEN COUNTY HIWAY
MAINTENANCE DEPT. TREES
DOWN.
BLPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 47 min |
| Nov 2, 3:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken | 28 min |
| Nov 2, 3:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 67 min |
| Nov 2, 3:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 36 min |
| Nov 2, 4:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 69 min |
| Nov 2, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 51 min |
| Nov 2, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln | 57 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.