Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1995, 2:53 PM EST for Aiken County, South Carolina; Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 1995, 2:53 PM EST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1995, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 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 071954 RRA SVRCAE GAC245-SCC003-072030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 253 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN GEORGIA ...RICHMOND COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...AIKEN COUNTY AT 250 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO RICHMOND COUNTY GEORGIA AND ANOTHER STORM OVER NORTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNIN^G...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. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 32 min |
| Nov 7, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken | 27 min |
| Nov 7, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 29 min |
| Nov 7, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell, Orangeburg | 40 min |
| Nov 7, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Nov 7, 3:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland | 24 min |
| Nov 7, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 18 min |
| Nov 7, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 42 min |
| Nov 7, 3:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 46 min |
| Nov 7, 4:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 54 min |
| Nov 7, 4:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 20 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.