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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Columbia, SC

November 11, 19954 counties in South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 3:12 PM EST for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 11, 1995, 3:12 PM EST (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 1995, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fairfield County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 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 
TTAA00 KCAE 112012 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC039-063-071-079-112115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
312 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...FAIRFIELD COUNTY...LEXINGTON COUNTY...NEWBERRY COUNTY
   ...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 310 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
STRETCHING FROM NEWBERRY COUNTY TO NEAR AUGUSTA GA. THESE STORMS HAVE
PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBE|R
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, 38 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, 26 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 2:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield	35 min
Nov 11, 2:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Saluda	66 min
Nov 11, 4:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	56 min
Nov 11, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun	52 min
Nov 11, 4:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	47 min
Nov 11, 4:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	47 min
Nov 11, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Sumter	62 min
Nov 11, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	62 min
Nov 11, 5:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.