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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Columbia, SC

November 2, 1995Edgefield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 1995, 4:39 PM EST for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 2, 1995, 4:39 PM EST (21:39 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 1995, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Edgefield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 022137 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC037-022230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
439 PM EST THU NOV 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EDGEFIELD COUNTY
 
AT 435 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING
WESTERN EDGEFIELD COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH
AND WILL MOVE INTO EDGEFIELD AT AROUND 450 PM.
 
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.
 
SJN

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, 44 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.

BC

Local storm report, Nov 2, 4:05 PM EST, 34 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.

BLP

Local storm report, Nov 2, 4:10 PM EST, 29 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.

BLP

Local storm report, Nov 2, 4:22 PM EST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
422 PM EST THU NOV 02 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
410 PM     3 NNE ORANGEBURG          SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
11/02/95   ORANGEBURG

TTH

The 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, 4:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	46 min
Nov 2, 4:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Clarendon	69 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.