Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Columbia, SC

November 7, 1995Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1995, 3:11 PM EST for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 7, 1995, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1995, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 34 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 20:12 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 7, 3:15 PM EST	Tornado F0	Cayce, SC	Tornado caused damage to a couple of homes and businesses. Trees were knocked down.
Nov 7, 3:30 PM EST	Tornado F1	Lexington, SC	Intermittent touchdowns took down several large billboards, one steet reinforced. Numerous homes damaged with one moved four feet off foundation. A landscaping business was destroyed.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 072011 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC063-072045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
311 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 305 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS
EASTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE FROM THE AIRPORT ON SOUTH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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 7, 3:08 PM EST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
308 PM EST TUE NOV 07 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1446       EVANS                     GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/07/95   COLUMBIA                       COLUMBIA COUNTY EPD
                                          REPORTS TREES DOWN
                                          THROUGHOUT COLUMBIA
                                          COUNTYESPECIALLY NEAR
                                          EVANS.

1453       MONETTA                   SC   TORNADO
11/07/95   AIKEN                          AIKEN COUNTY EPD REPORTS
                                          TORNADO NEAR MONETTA WITH
                                          ONE HOUSE DAMAGED AND
                                          SEVERAL CHICKEN HOUSES
                                          DESTROYED.

CTC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 2:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	37 min
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, 3:16 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.