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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Columbia, SC

November 11, 1995Clarendon County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 5:23 PM EST for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 11, 1995, 5:23 PM EST (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 1995, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Clarendon County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 112224 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC027-112330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
523 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CLARENDON COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM BISHOPVILLE IN LEE COUNTY TO ELLOREE IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND CONTINUE TO TAKE
DOWN SOME TREES AND POWER LINES.
 
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, 4:48 PM EST, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
448 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1632       NEESES                    SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   ORANGEBURG                     TREES DOWN FROM
                                          THUNDERSTORM WINDS.

SJN

Special weather statement, Nov 11, 5:06 PM EST, 17 minutes before

SCZ018-020-021-025>027-030-GAZ040-063>065-077-120000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
502 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY AND
PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN MIDLANDS...

THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER
AREA COUNTIES OF LINCOLN...MCDUFFIE...COLUMBIA...RICHMOND AND BURK. THE
TORNADO WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE WESTERN MIDLAND COUNTIES
OF MCCORMICK...EDGEFIELD...SALUDA...NEWBERRY...FAIRFIELD...AIKEN AND
LEXINGTON.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE MIDLANDS.

VAUGHAN
END

Special weather statement, Nov 11, 5:09 PM EST, 14 minutes before

SCZ018-020-021-025>027-030-GAZ040-063>065-077-120000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
502 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY AND
PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN MIDLANDS...

THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER
AREA COUNTIES OF LINCOLN...MCDUFFIE...COLUMBIA...RICHMOND AND BURKE. THE
TORNADO WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE WESTERN MIDLAND COUNTIES
OF MCCORMICK...EDGEFIELD...SALUDA...NEWBERRY...FAIRFIELD...AIKEN AND
LEXINGTON.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE MIDLANDS.

VAUGHAN
END

Local storm report, Nov 11, 5:11 PM EST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
511 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1640       EASTOVER                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   RICHLAND                       THUNDERSTORM WINDS TOOK
                                          DOWN POWER LINES AND
                                          BRANCHES

SJN

Local storm report, Nov 11, 5:13 PM EST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
513 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1710       1N SUMTER                 SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   SUMTER                         TREES DOWN HWY 53 FROM
                                          THUNDERSTORM WINDS.

SJN

Local storm report, Nov 11, 5:20 PM EST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
520 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1720       BISHOPVILLE               SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   LEE                            POWER LINES AND LARGE TREE
                                          BRANCHES DOWN FROM
                                          THUNDERSTORM WINDS.POLICE

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, 3:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland	63 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

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.