Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1995, 3:48 PM EST for Lee County, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 1995, 3:48 PM EST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1995, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 072050 RRA SVRCAE SCC061-085-072130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 348 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...LEE COUNTY...SUMTER COUNTY A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO CROSS THE MIDLANDS AT 350 PM. THE LINE WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN LEE AND WESTERN SUMTER COUNTIES. 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 T*O 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, 40 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.
CTCLocal storm report, Nov 7, 3:29 PM EST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
329 PM EST TUE NOV 07 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1516 MONETTA SC TORNADO
11/07/95 AIKEN TWO ADDITIONAL HOUSES
DAMAGED BY
TORNADO...REPORTED BY
AIKEN COUNTY EOC.
1515 AUGUSTA GA WIND DAMAGE
11/07/95 RICHMOND RICHMOND COUNTY EOC
REPORTS SIGNS BLOWN DOWN
NEAR REGENCY MALL IN
AUGUSTA.
1516 COLUMBIA SC WIND DAMAGE
11/07/95 RICHLAND WIND GUSTS TO 58 MPH
REPORTED ATOP AT&T
BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN
COLUMBIA.
1523 SOUTH CONGAREE SC WIND DAMAGE
11/07/95 LEXINGTON MOBILE HOME DAMAGED NEAR
SOUTH CONGAREE...REPORTED
BY LEXINGTON COUNTY EOC.
1523 IRMO SC WIND DAMAGE
11/07/95 LEXINGTON TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
BETWEEN ST. ANDREWS AND
LAKE MURRAY DAM AND IN THE
COLDSTREAM NEIGHBORHOOD.
REPORTED BY LEXINGTON CO.
EOC.
CTCLocal storm report, Nov 7, 3:40 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
340 PM EST TUE NOV 07 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1533 ORANGEBURG SC TORNADO
11/07/95 ORANGEBURG ORANGEBURG COUNTY EOC
REPORTS TWO TRAILERS
DAMAGED IN TORNADO JUST
NORTH OF ORANGEBURG CITY
LIMITS.
CTC
WUUS01KCAE 0Local storm report, Nov 7, 3:40 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
340 PM EST TUE NOV 07 1995
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1533 ORANGEBURG SC TORNADO
11/07/95 ORANGEBURG ORANGEBURG COUNTY EOC
REPORTS TWO TRAILERS
DAMAGED IN TORNADO JUST
NORTH OF ORANGEBURG CITY
LIMITS.
CTC
WUUS01KCAE 0The 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, 3:11 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, 3:53 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, 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.