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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Columbia, SC

November 11, 1995Aiken County, Saluda County, South Carolina; Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 2:54 PM EST for Aiken County, Saluda County, South Carolina; Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1995, 2:54 PM EST (19:54 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1995, 4:00 PM EST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 1995-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 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 
WUUS1 KCAE 111954 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC245-SCC003-081-112100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
254 PM EST SAT NOV 11 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
 
   ...RICHMOND COUNTY
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...AIKEN COUNTY...EASTERN SALUDA COUNTY
 
AT 250 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM CENTRAL SALUDA COUNTY TO EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY GA. THESE STORMS
HAVE PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS AND WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 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.
 
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 11, 2:34 PM EST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
234 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1433       APPLING                   GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   COLUMBIA                       TREES DOWN FROM
                                          THUNDERSTORM WINDS.

SJN
Local storm report, Nov 11, 2:46 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
246 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1445       JOHNSTON                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   EDGEFIELD                      POWER LINES DOWN FROM
                                          THUNDERSTORM WINDS.

SJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 2:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield35 min
Nov 11, 3:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland63 min
Nov 11, 4:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw56 min
Nov 11, 4:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun52 min
Nov 11, 4:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEOrangeburg47 min
Nov 11, 4:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland47 min
Nov 11, 4:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Sumter62 min
Nov 11, 4:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee62 min
Nov 11, 5:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon67 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.