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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Columbia, SC

November 7, 1995Calhoun County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1995, 3:20 PM EST for Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 7, 1995, 3:20 PM EST (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1995, 4:00 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 363 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 072021 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC033-SCC011-017-075-072100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
320 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BURKE COUNTY
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BARNWELL COUNTY...CALHOUN COUNTY...ORANGEBURG COUNTY
 
AT 318 DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
 
 
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, 12 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 2:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken37 min
Nov 7, 2:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield32 min
Nov 7, 3:03 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEAiken27 min
Nov 7, 3:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington34 min
Nov 7, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw, Richland29 min
Nov 7, 3:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBarnwell, Orangeburg40 min
Nov 7, 3:21 PM ESTTornado WarningCAERichland24 min
Nov 7, 3:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw, Richland18 min
Nov 7, 3:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter42 min
Nov 7, 3:53 PM ESTTornado WarningCAECalhoun37 min
Nov 7, 3:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Orangeburg46 min
Nov 7, 4:06 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEClarendon54 min
Nov 7, 4:10 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEChesterfield20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.